{"id":188,"date":"2006-02-13T09:37:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/02\/13\/which-that-story-isnt-but-still\/"},"modified":"2006-02-13T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T14:37:31","slug":"which-that-story-isnt-but-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/02\/13\/which-that-story-isnt-but-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Which that story isn&#8217;t but still"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuginternet.com\/jja\/journal\/archives\/002682.html\" title=\"I bet John Jacob Adams would avoid a lot of jokes if he dropped his middle name.\">The Slush God:<\/a><\/b>  Are you totally sick of seeing rejected-writer-gets-revenge-on-editors stories in the slush pile? Have you ever read a good one?<\/p>\n<p><b>Kelly Link:<\/b>  There is a wonderful epistolary story by a Canadian writer, Robert Boycuk, in which an editor is lowering himself into a terrible void, in pursuit of an author&#8217;s manuscript. It&#8217;s a sort of apology from the editor for how long it&#8217;s taken him to get back to the writer.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I can&#8217;t think of any off the top of my head. I&#8217;m sure there are some good ones out there. I would say that there&#8217;s probably a novel waiting to be written about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/anacrusis\/2006\/02\/13\/0\" title=\"Kelly Link, Jelly Ink.\">hapless slush readers<\/a>, but it would have to be very well done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Slush God: Are you totally sick of seeing rejected-writer-gets-revenge-on-editors stories in the slush pile? Have you ever read a good one? Kelly Link: There is a wonderful epistolary story by a Canadian writer, Robert Boycuk, in which an editor is lowering himself into a terrible void, in pursuit of an author&#8217;s manuscript. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plugs","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}