{"id":436,"date":"2020-03-19T19:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2020-08-15T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:38:57","slug":"an-occasional-news-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"An Occasional News Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been spending much of my online time in two venues. The first is <a href=\"https:\/\/curiousfictions.com\/\">Curious Fictions<\/a> where I try to post a story a week, generally on Wednesdays. The site contains a <strong>ton<\/strong> of free fiction. Readers can also subscribe to writers they like or give them tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I like tips. You can also follow writers who you want so when they post new stuff, you are notified. There&#8217;s a place to &#8220;like&#8221; stories or to comment on them.  My latest contribution is <a href=\"https:\/\/curiousfictions.com\/stories\/2987-james-van-pelt-the-small-astral-object-genius\">&#8220;The Small Astral Object Genius,&#8221;<\/a> which appeared the first time in Asimov&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also have been posting short fiction reviews at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/\">Black Gate<\/a>. Those also appear every two or three weeks and are free to read. The column is called &#8220;Stories that Work.&#8221; My mission is to comment on stories that I think are successful and what recommends them. I&#8217;m not searching for a &#8220;best of&#8221; necessarily, nor am I reviewing the stories I don&#8217;t think work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2020\/03\/04\/stories-that-work-the-valley-of-the-speaking-flames-by-b-pladek-and-where-a-good-town-may-take-us-by-andi-c-buchanan-in-abyss-apex\/\">Here&#8217;s my latest for Black Gate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I also hang out at Face Book regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep safe! Social distance responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been spending much of my online time in two venues. The first is Curious Fictions where I try to post a story a week, generally on Wednesdays. The site contains a ton of free fiction. Readers can also subscribe to writers they like or give them tips. Of course, I like tips. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,79,9,7],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing","tag-reviews","tag-short-stories","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}