{"id":4296,"date":"2018-02-22T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:29:44","slug":"undead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=4296","title":{"rendered":"Undead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I un-killed one of my characters.\u00a0His name is Joe and he&#8217;s pretty minor as characters go, but now he is un-dead. (Not one of the undead; just\u00a0<em>not dead.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world I&#8217;m building, in a fictional town in Virginia, is currently still under my control. In the real world, real kids are being shot and a click of the keyboard is not going to revive them. Select\/delete\u00a0will not erase a funeral.<\/p>\n<p>As authors, we reflect real life, even in fantasy. Which means that often, we do write about death.\u00a0People die. People grieve. A death in a story shows what it takes for other characters to rise up and endure. So there may be times when I have to kill a character, let the cancer invade more cells, let the car hit the cat, let the bullet find a target.<\/p>\n<p>But not this week dammit.<\/p>\n<p>Not this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I un-killed one of my characters.\u00a0His name is Joe and he&#8217;s pretty minor as characters go, but now he is un-dead. (Not one of the undead; just\u00a0not dead.) The world I&#8217;m building, in a fictional town in Virginia, is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=4296\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[214,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-control","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}