{"id":3188,"date":"2017-10-15T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T08:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2017-10-15T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T08:37:11","slug":"submitted-a-new-short-story-to-lamplight-magazine-lamplightmagazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/10\/15\/submitted-a-new-short-story-to-lamplight-magazine-lamplightmagazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Submitted a new short story to Lamplight Magazine  @lamplightmagazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possessed of a writing frenzy, my second short story in as many weeks has been sent off. I have sent it to <a href=\"http:\/\/lamplightmagazine.com\/\">Lamplight Magazine<\/a>. As with last week&#8217;s short story, it&#8217;s now just a matter of waiting to see whether they accept it. My biggest concern about my story is that it is not speculative fiction, but rather a dark reflection of current society. <a href=\"https:\/\/writingcareer.com\/lamplight-magazine-opens-submissions-for-dark-fiction-tales\/\">Here<\/a> is their call for submissions if any of you are interested in submitting something yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>This story I call &#8220;Can u pick me up?&#8221; It is inspired by countless brief SMS messages that fly between my daughter and myself. Indeed, a couple of the messages in the story are ripped straight from actual texts (for example, the title). Premise: an older sister receives a text from her younger sister seeking to get a ride home. This then ends up in the older sister being lured into a life-threatening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possessed of a writing frenzy, my second short story in as many weeks has been sent off. I have sent it to Lamplight Magazine. As with last week&#8217;s short story, it&#8217;s now just a matter of waiting to see whether they accept it. My biggest concern about my story is that it is not speculative fiction, but rather a dark reflection of current society. Here is their call for submissions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[215,356,144,4],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wbfs","tag-fiction","tag-short-stories","tag-writer","tag-writing","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_1076.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}