{"id":458,"date":"2020-05-29T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2021-11-18T22:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:11:27","slug":"colorado-public-radio-interviews-james-van-pelt-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Public Radio Interviews James Van Pelt about Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1534371629420-10f73a29d425?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&amp;q=80&amp;fm=jpg&amp;crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;w=1080&amp;fit=max&amp;ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjQ1NDExfQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"192\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, what they wanted was a science fiction writer&#8217;s angle on possible impacts of the pandemic, and since I&#8217;d written a pandemic novel, <em>Summer of the Apocalypse,<\/em> they chose me. I suggested that a short story of mine, <a href=\"https:\/\/curiousfictions.com\/stories\/907-james-van-pelt-friday-after-the-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Friday, After the Game,&#8221;<\/a> was a better fit for the topic, so we talked about that instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/show-segment\/twenty-years-and-a-pandemic-later-a-colorado-authors-story-resonates\/?fbclid=IwAR2Z_cstZCrpdPgeO2PTQebgAr6URSiFfDMcyh5CPGumw4VsVaDE8goHXTU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here is the interview.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, what they wanted was a science fiction writer&#8217;s angle on possible impacts of the pandemic, and since I&#8217;d written a pandemic novel, Summer of the Apocalypse, they chose me. I suggested that a short story of mine, &#8220;Friday, After the Game,&#8221; was a better fit for the topic, so we talked about that instead. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,6],"tags":[86,85,87,15,88,89],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-short-stories","tag-covid-19","tag-interview","tag-pandemic","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-story","tag-virtual-leaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}