{"id":267,"date":"2009-05-25T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=267"},"modified":"2010-12-16T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T14:06:03","slug":"names-are-not-easy-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"names are not easy to change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, there are more parts of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/utownwriting.com\/2009\/stories\/the-family-murder-case-part-one\">The Family Murder Case<\/A> posted.  The new parts start <A HREF=\"http:\/\/utownwriting.com\/2009\/stories\/the-family-murder-case-part-eleven\">here<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>I've been thinking about the names of the mystery stories posted here.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/utownwriting.com\/2008\/stories\/the-u-town-murder-case-part-one\">The U-town Murder Case<\/A> was originally called that because I thought it was going to be the only one.  It turned out to be the first of a series, of course, most of which could have been called \"The U-town Murder Case.\"  It took a while to figure out an alternative name, but finally the obvious answer came to me.  It should be called \"The Apartment Murder Case\" (since it is the only one to take place in apartments).  I'll change it when I get time, but it will be fairly complex, since the names of the stories generate the URLs (such as <A HREF=\"http:\/\/utownwriting.com\/2008\/stories\/the-u-town-murder-case-part-one\">http:\/\/utownwriting.com\/2008\/stories\/the-u-town-murder-case-part-one<\/A>).  That will take a bit of work to change.<\/p>\n<p>But not as much work as the other change, which is that I think I've got to stop calling them \"The xxxxxx Murder Case,\" since some of them don't actually involve murders.  This also started with \"The U-town Murder Case,\" where I thought it was a nice touch to have a title that was a reference to the Philo Vance books (which were always \"The xxxxxx Murder Case\").  And I didn't think it would be a problem, since I wasn't thinking of a series.<\/p>\n<p>But now I've thought of a new idea for a story, and not only will it not have a murder, it won't even have any violence or injury (well, there will be a broken arm, but that's about it).  To call it \"The xxxxxx Murder Case\" would lead readers to expect a murder to come at some point, and that would distract them from the actual events.<\/p>\n<p>However, to change all of the names, and all the links, and all of the links to the stories, would be way more work than I am going to do.  So, they will remain, but the new stories (at least the one I mention above, and the ones after that) will be called \"The xxxxxx Mystery\" instead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F267&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F267&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, there are more parts of The Family Murder Case posted. The new parts start here. I&#8217;ve been thinking about the names of the mystery stories posted here. First of all, The U-town Murder Case was originally called that because I thought it was going to be the only one. It turned out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,111],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-names","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}