{"id":1149,"date":"2022-07-16T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2022-07-16T15:20:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T15:20:56","slug":"new-alien-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/2022\/07\/16\/new-alien-story\/","title":{"rendered":"New Alien Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This just in … my new short, short story “Giant Rock,” inspired by my recent trip to The Integratron, has been accepted for publication in Bright Flash Literary Review. Thank you to them. And, yes, aliens are involved, as are baby quails, a giftshop saleswoman named Venus (who looks like Marilyn Monroe in “Some Like It Hot”), and a talking bobcat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aDSCF0133-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aDSCF0133-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aDSCF0133-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aDSCF0133-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aDSCF0133-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aDSCF0133-copy-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in … my new short, short story “Giant Rock,” inspired by my recent trip to The Integratron, has been accepted for publication in Bright Flash Literary Review. Thank you to them. And, yes, aliens are involved, as are baby quails, a giftshop saleswoman named Venus (who looks like Marilyn Monroe in “Some Like … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/2022\/07\/16\/new-alien-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “New Alien Story”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,127,37],"tags":[61,43],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-with-the-alien","category-lunch-with-the-alien","category-writing","tag-flash-fiction","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregroensch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}