{"id":656,"date":"2014-09-23T10:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=656"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:10:02","slug":"starting-with-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Starting with short stories&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shorties.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-657\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shorties.jpg?resize=300%2C133&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"shorties\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shorties.jpg?resize=300%2C133&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shorties.jpg?resize=788%2C350&amp;ssl=1 788w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shorties.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decided to concentrate on short stories to start with&#8230;my favourite poets Burnside and Carver both write short stories too&#8230;.some of these I collected 20 years ago&#8230;about time I read them! Thanks to Jez Noond for some more recent additions to the\u00c2\u00a0que including Grace Paley and Amy Hempel.<\/p>\n<p>Some obvious missing collections here..D.H.Lawrence..Richard Ford, Russell Banks, Steinbeck. This just the paperbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decided to concentrate on short stories to start with&#8230;my favourite poets Burnside and Carver both write short stories too&#8230;.some of these I collected 20 years ago&#8230;about time I read them! Thanks to Jez Noond for some more recent additions to the\u00c2\u00a0que including Grace Paley and Amy Hempel. Some obvious missing collections here..D.H.Lawrence..Richard Ford, Russell Banks,&#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":[39,38,44,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creative-writing-m-a","category-fiction","category-short-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-aA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","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=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}