{"id":212,"date":"2017-03-15T10:39:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/?p=212"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T21:18:16","slug":"the-stone-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/2017\/03\/15\/the-stone-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stone Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-215 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Apollo_Kitharoidos_head-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Apollo_Kitharoidos_head-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Apollo_Kitharoidos_head.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>The Stone Lover<\/em>, a short bit of fantasy horror and my most recent publication, is available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/the-stone-lover\/\">Lightspeed Magazine.com<\/a>. There is also a link to a podcast of the story.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard my fiction read aloud only once before, a multi-voiced reading of <em>Secret Rider<\/em> performed by Audio Saga in 1985. It seemed odd to me. I had heard the narration of that story, in my head, as cool, detached, but the Audio Saga&#8217;s narrator was warm, passionate at times, and I wasn&#8217;t sure that I liked it. I still have a copy of the audio cassette, and if I had a device that could play it I would listen again, to see if I still feel that way.<\/p>\n<p>I have no problem at all with the Lightspeed podcast. The narrator,\u00a0Stefan Rudnicki, reads the story with precisely the right blend of honey and poison, and I&#8217;m very grateful for that. And surprised. I did not know that an audio version was part of the publication, and am very happy that it was. Thank you, JJA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stone Lover, a short bit of fantasy horror and my most recent publication, is available online at Lightspeed Magazine.com. There is also a link to a podcast of the story. I have heard my fiction read aloud only once before, a multi-voiced reading of Secret Rider performed by Audio Saga in 1985. It seemed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/2017\/03\/15\/the-stone-lover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Stone Lover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}