{"id":2299,"date":"2016-12-08T06:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T06:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/12\/08\/when-ppl-ask-me-why-i-write-science-fiction-i\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T06:04:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T06:04:45","slug":"when-ppl-ask-me-why-i-write-science-fiction-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/12\/08\/when-ppl-ask-me-why-i-write-science-fiction-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>when ppl ask me why I write science fiction, I love to give them grandiose answers like &ldquo;well you see in the future, anything is possible, including the eradication of racism, sexism, and all of the cruel -isms&rdquo; or &ldquo;my imagination is too small to be contained to the world we know, you see&rdquo; or &ldquo;Ray Bradbury possessed me with the frenzied spirit of Ethereal Words after he passed and I Can&rsquo;t Stop&rdquo; but the truth is today I went to write that my character&rsquo;s fighter smelled like fast food but I couldn&rsquo;t think of what that was called for a second and I just kept typing and I wrote &ldquo;quickfoods&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>and that is perfectly acceptable<\/p>\n<p>and that is why I write science fiction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when ppl ask me why I write science fiction, I love to give them grandiose answers like &ldquo;well you see in the future, anything is possible, including the eradication of racism, sexism, and all of the cruel -isms&rdquo; or &ldquo;my imagination is too small to be contained to the world we know, you see&rdquo; or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/12\/08\/when-ppl-ask-me-why-i-write-science-fiction-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[988,1389,1388,1387,939],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-about-me","tag-brain-mention","tag-ive-found-my-niche-and-im-sticking-to-it","tag-my-brain-does-the-weird-sometimes","tag-writerlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}