{"id":229,"date":"2012-11-27T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/?p=229"},"modified":"2012-12-22T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T18:42:36","slug":"sale-chasing-unicorns-to-daily-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/sale-chasing-unicorns-to-daily-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale! &#8220;Chasing Unicorns&#8221; to Daily Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/unicorn.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[229]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"unicorn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/unicorn-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"173\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> I returned the contract today, and am happy to announce that my story &#8220;Chasing Unicorns&#8221; will be appearing some day soon in Daily Science Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m super pleased by this. Friends who&#8217;ve read this story seem to remember it, and often ask me about it. One person who read an early draft\u2014definitely not a friend\u2014even did a shoddy job of ripping off some particularly unique imagery from a moment in the story that she said she&#8217;d found striking and memorable. (Flattering, but not cool. Please don&#8217;t do this, writers. You have <em>your own<\/em> striking and unique imagery and stories inside you; look there and you will find them. I have faith in you.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway! I owe a <em>huge<\/em> debt of gratitude to a lot people who, when I might have given up on this one,\u00a0encouraged me to keep working and revise it again. Thank you, you know who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned the contract today, and am happy to announce that my story &#8220;Chasing Unicorns&#8221; will be appearing some day soon in Daily Science Fiction. I&#8217;m super pleased by this. Friends who&#8217;ve read this story seem to remember it, and often ask me about it. One person who read an early draft\u2014definitely not a friend\u2014even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pRies-3H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}