{"id":3649,"date":"2017-01-09T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2017-01-09T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:23:27","slug":"short-story-blood-red-and-raven-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"Short Story: &#8220;Blood Red and Raven Black&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that a story of mine has found a home in the latest issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delinquentspice.com\/?p=607\">Truancy<\/a><\/em>, a &#8220;literary microzine&#8221; dedicated to &#8220;less conventional revisions and retellings of folklore, fairytales and mythology.&#8221; Mine is a retelling of Snow White. I&#8217;ve always liked that genre of story&#8212;fairy tales redone with a twist, from the perspective of a minor character or perhaps even the villain, or by changing one key thing about the story in order to see what happens. What if Cinderella was a werewolf? What if the Troll Princess talked about being jilted at the altar? What if Snow White wasn&#8217;t white?<\/p>\n<p>The other stories in <em>Truancy<\/em> are definitely worth checking out as well&#8212;in general I&#8217;m impressed with the site and the quality of fiction it curates, and I&#8217;m very pleased that a story of mine is now included there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that a story of mine has found a home in the latest issue of Truancy, a &#8220;literary microzine&#8221; dedicated to &#8220;less conventional revisions and retellings of folklore, fairytales and mythology.&#8221; Mine is a retelling of Snow White. I&#8217;ve always liked that genre of story&#8212;fairy tales redone with a twist, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}