{"id":205,"date":"2003-03-16T11:33:52-05:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-16T19:33:52+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=205"},"modified":"2003-03-16T11:33:52-05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-16T19:33:52+00:00","slug":"second-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/03\/16\/second-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Second&nbsp;thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>I&#8217;ve been trying to write something the last few days that&#8217;s somewhat out of character.  It kind of defies description: it&#8217;s fiction, but is semi-autobiographical; it&#8217;s a short story, but is primarily a set of barely-germinated stories; and it&#8217;s allegorical but true to history.<\/p>\n\n<p>In its current form, the piece will never see the light of phosphor.  The <cite>semi-autobiographical<\/cite> parts are still way too close to the mark for my liking, and unfortunately they&#8217;re what unifies the rest of the jumble.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s my first attempt at creating anything of this sort in ages, and it&#8217;s the first thing I&#8217;ve ever really been <em>inspired<\/em> to write.  It might even be good, although I don&#8217;t hold out much hope&#8211;there&#8217;s little in it that would be of interest to anyone not living inside my brain.  (My friend Kym points out that I put myself down a lot, and she&#8217;s right as usual.  She kindly fails to notice that it&#8217;s with good reason.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Certain sections will appear here shortly anyway.  They will appear unrelated, and that&#8217;s because they are; they&#8217;ll be ripped verbatim with no framing structure at all, save for a relation to the latter part of <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/13\/l8r_g8r.html\">this quote<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been trying to write something the last few days that&#8217;s somewhat out of character. It kind of defies description: it&#8217;s fiction, but is semi-autobiographical; it&#8217;s a short story, but is primarily a set of barely-germinated stories; and it&#8217;s allegorical but true to history. In its current form, the piece will never see the light&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}