{"id":3078,"date":"2024-03-01T10:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:18:00","slug":"new-short-story-blog-short-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"NEW SHORT STORY BLOG: SHORT CUTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fires.jpg?resize=640%2C865&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fires.jpg?w=740&amp;ssl=1 740w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fires.jpg?resize=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fires.jpg?resize=676%2C914&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mid 1980s I worked at a Tottenham Lane public library which had a small fire and books were smoke damaged and to be binned. I salvaged and still own a hardback copy of Fires as above by Raymond Carver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I considered myself a Carveresque poet rather than a short story writer. In 1990s I actually met Carver&#8217;s widow Tess Gallagher the poet at the South bank and told her the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took me until 2015 to actually produce my first short story which is here and called The Leash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog will contain my further short stories and reviews of mostly american short fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BLOG HERE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/fires\/\">https:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/fires\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1980s I worked at a Tottenham Lane public library which had a small fire and books were smoke damaged and to be binned. I salvaged and still own a hardback copy of Fires as above by Raymond Carver. Then I considered myself a Carveresque poet rather than a short story writer. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-NE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}