{"id":183,"date":"2006-02-24T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/02\/24\/a-game-to-play-while-walking\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T21:30:10","slug":"a-game-to-play-while-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/02\/24\/a-game-to-play-while-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"A game to play while walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I call this the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/anacrusis\/2006\/01\/09\/0\" title=\"Poems are hard.\">California<\/a> game, but it doesn&#8217;t actually have to rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>What is noir?  A story about losers.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the losers?  They didn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the winners?  The writers of history.<\/p>\n<p>What is a history?  Lies that come true.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of words come true?  Magic ones.<\/p>\n<p>So for a noir story you make up people who know magic, then write about the ones who don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Your turn.  Where is Atlantis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call this the California game, but it doesn&#8217;t actually have to rhyme. What is noir? A story about losers. Who are the losers? They didn&#8217;t win. Who are the winners? The writers of history. What is a history? Lies that come true. What kind of words come true? Magic ones. So for a noir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constrained-writing","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}