{"id":10623,"date":"2010-07-26T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10623"},"modified":"2010-07-26T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:21:50","slug":"the-stable-masters-tale-by-rachel-swirsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10623","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Stable Master&#039;s Tale,&quot; by Rachel Swirsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bigbearbard\/348579742\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/st_george_dragon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"st_george_dragon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/st_george_dragon.jpg 500w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/st_george_dragon-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Magazine has posted Mandolin&#8217;s short story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasy-magazine.com\/2010\/07\/the-stable-masters-tale\/\">The Stable Master&#8217;s Tale<\/a>&#8221; on their website. Here&#8217;s how it begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was born a baron\u2019s daughter in a kingdom that no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p>My father\u2019s stables were the most important part of his holdings. By the time I had ten summers, I could soothe a panicked stallion and help birth a breech foal.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I was fifteen, I\u2019d realized I didn\u2019t want to marry into some tedious house where I\u2019d be expected to dedicate my life to child-rearing and embroidery. I knew this fate would inevitably befall me if I stayed, and so I packed a few things and snuck away in the night. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasy-magazine.com\/2010\/07\/the-stable-masters-tale\/\">Fantasy Magazine&#8217;s site<\/a> to read the entire story! And they also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasy-magazine.com\/2010\/07\/this-is-all-indisputable-rachel-swirsky\/\">a brief interview with Mandolin<\/a> about the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy Magazine has posted Mandolin&#8217;s short story &#8220;The Stable Master&#8217;s Tale&#8221; on their website. Here&#8217;s how it begins: I was born a baron\u2019s daughter in a kingdom that no longer exists. My father\u2019s stables were the most important part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-bloggers","category-mandolins-fiction-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}