{"id":247,"date":"2013-01-15T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/?p=247"},"modified":"2013-01-15T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:03:10","slug":"lucky-seven-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/lucky-seven-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Seven Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a million years ago\u2014last June\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericjamesstone.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/lucky-7-challenge\/\">Eric James Stone<\/a>\u00a0tagged me in the Lucky 7 Challenge. At the time, I was swamped, and though I&#8217;d intended to post and pass it on, I forgot. It&#8217;s going around again now. (Seasonal like a flu?) Anyway, I saw someone post their seven lines and remembered that I&#8217;d already been tagged.<\/p>\n<p>The rules are:<\/p>\n<p>Go to page 7 or 77 of your latest work. Read down to the seventh line and then post online the next seven lines or sentences. Then head off and tag seven more writers.<\/p>\n<p>So, the following are the seven lines following the seventh line on the seventh page of \u201cForgotten Sonnets from the City of Undoing,\u201d a short story I&#8217;m currently working on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Violetta introduced us to the funeral director, easily picked out from the mourners because he wore a nametag and occasionally rearranged the flowers when people brought more. Violetta told him we were out-of-towners, just going to spend one night. Could he recommend a hotel, a hostel, or anyone who might put up two kids in their spare room? We were only passing through on our way to mumblety-mumble, but what on earth\u2014 Who was the boy and what had happened to him?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was called Sergio,&#8221; the funeral director said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what killed him. I&#8217;ve forgotten. It&#8217;s terrible. It must be terrible. Everyone has forgotten.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beth.dawkins.35\">Beth Dawkins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allison.starkweather\">Allison Starkweather<\/a>\u00a0(Alli, your website is down!), <a href=\"http:\/\/garydhenderson.com\/\">Gary Henderson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katherinemankiller.com\/\">Katherine Mankiller<\/a>, Julie Hannah, Sandy Parsons, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eamb.org\/the-author\/\">Christopher Kastensmidt<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t want to play, or if you&#8217;ve already been tagged and don&#8217;t want to play again, feel free to ignore. If you haven&#8217;t been tagged and do want to play, feel free to tag yourself in the comments and join in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a million years ago\u2014last June\u2014Eric James Stone\u00a0tagged me in the Lucky 7 Challenge. At the time, I was swamped, and though I&#8217;d intended to post and pass it on, I forgot. It&#8217;s going around again now. (Seasonal like a flu?) Anyway, I saw someone post their seven lines and remembered that I&#8217;d already been [&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-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pRies-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rarelytame.com\/terra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}