{"id":634,"date":"2004-11-22T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/11\/22\/634\/"},"modified":"2004-11-22T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T16:39:24","slug":"634","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/11\/22\/634\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love constrained writing, and I checked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constrained.org\/\" title=\"I want to give them money or hosting or something.\">Constrained<\/a> today and got reminded why.<\/p>\n<p>While I recognize that neither of the two stories I&#8217;m about to link is particularly original, I admire them because they are brilliant exercises in form (some people use that term as a pejorative; I don&#8217;t).   You can read them very quickly, and I recommend them to you with this note:  read the stories before you click to see which challenges inspired them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constrained.org\/stories\/196\/\" title=\"&quot;This fluid and playful response fills me with envious rage.&quot;\">Vive La Difference!<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constrained.org\/authors\/40\/\" title=\"&quot;Ian describes himself as, 'a savage gypsy paramour'&quot;\">Ian Sherred<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constrained.org\/stories\/206\/\" title=\"&quot;Spy fancies girl.&quot;\">James Bond<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constrained.org\/authors\/104\/\" title=\"&quot;Please form a queue by the slush pile.&quot;\">Mark Tibbits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love constrained writing, and I checked Constrained today and got reminded why. While I recognize that neither of the two stories I&#8217;m about to link is particularly original, I admire them because they are brilliant exercises in form (some people use that term as a pejorative; I don&#8217;t). You can read them very quickly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constrained-writing","category-plugs","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}