{"id":5364,"date":"2015-04-06T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5364"},"modified":"2015-04-06T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T16:21:56","slug":"this-is-why-we-write-in-a-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5364","title":{"rendered":"this is why we write in a world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5351\">recently<\/a>, I have an idea for a new story. As I thought it through, I realized that I would have to invent a country.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I thought, I can do that. I invented a country before: <a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=2696#bellona\">Bellona<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And then I thought, okay, what if, rather than inventing a new country, I used Bellona? And then I remembered some things that would tie in, both from my published stories and from unpublished drafts. And it would explain why the detective would take an interest in the case&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase the great philosopher Hannibal Smith, I love it when a story starts to come together.<\/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%2F5364&#038;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%2F5364&#038;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>As I mentioned recently, I have an idea for a new story. As I thought it through, I realized that I would have to invent a country. Well, I thought, I can do that. I invented a country before: Bellona. And then I thought, okay, what if, rather than inventing a new country, I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","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=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}