{"id":72,"date":"2016-04-09T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-11-14T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:04:38","slug":"aprilmay-asimovs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"April\/May Asimov&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-73 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/APRILMAY2016-Asimovs.jpg\" alt=\"APRILMAY2016 Asimovs\" width=\"400\" height=\"580\" data-wp-pid=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/APRILMAY2016-Asimovs.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/APRILMAY2016-Asimovs-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>The latest&nbsp;<em>Asimov&#8217;s&nbsp;<\/em>is out with my short story, &#8220;Three Paintings.&#8221; &nbsp;The main character is an artist who has come up with an unusual experiment in creativity.<\/p>\n<p>I have artist friends, so I wanted to make sure I didn&#8217;t create an artist who wouldn&#8217;t pass their verisimilitude test. &nbsp;So far, the two who&#8217;ve read the story said that I didn&#8217;t screw up too badly.<\/p>\n<p>This is my 12th appearance in&nbsp;<em>Asimov&#8217;s<\/em>, starting with &#8220;Safety of the Herd&#8221; in 2002 (13th if I count a reprint of an&nbsp;<em>Analog<\/em> story that appeared in the Greek edition of&nbsp;<em>Asimov&#8217;s<\/em>). &nbsp;It is truly awesome to make a sale there. &nbsp;If you would have told me twenty years ago, the year I made my first professional sale, that I would be where I am today, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest&nbsp;Asimov&#8217;s&nbsp;is out with my short story, &#8220;Three Paintings.&#8221; &nbsp;The main character is an artist who has come up with an unusual experiment in creativity. I have artist friends, so I wanted to make sure I didn&#8217;t create an artist who wouldn&#8217;t pass their verisimilitude test. &nbsp;So far, the two who&#8217;ve read the story said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[18,8,9],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","category-short-stories","tag-asimovs","tag-publishing","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvanpelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}