{"id":16893,"date":"2013-03-06T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16893"},"modified":"2013-03-06T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:41:14","slug":"new-short-story-at-apex-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16893","title":{"rendered":"New short story at Apex Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new, very short story up at Apex Magazine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-my-love\/\">If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You\u2019d be a small one, only five feet, ten inches, the same height as human-you. You\u2019d be fragile-boned and you\u2019d walk with as delicate and polite a gait as you could manage on massive talons. Your eyes would gaze gently from beneath your bony brow-ridge.<\/p>\n<p>If you were a T-Rex, then I would become a zookeeper so that I could spend all my time with you. I\u2019d bring you raw chickens and live goats. I\u2019d watch the gore shining on your teeth. I\u2019d make my bed on the floor of your cage, in the moist dirt, cushioned by leaves. When you couldn\u2019t sleep, I\u2019d sing you lullabies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-my-love\/\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new, very short story up at Apex Magazine: If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love: If you were a dinosaur, my love, then you would be a T-Rex. You\u2019d be a small one, only five feet, ten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16894,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions\/16894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}