{"id":774,"date":"2017-05-02T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=774"},"modified":"2017-05-08T20:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T00:47:35","slug":"alien-space-battle-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Alien Space Battle Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Alien-Space-Battle-stuff-83.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Alien-Space-Battle-stuff-83-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Alien Space Battle stuff-83\" width=\"715\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Alien-Space-Battle-stuff-83-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Alien-Space-Battle-stuff-83-768x602.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Alien-Space-Battle-stuff-83-1024x802.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*****This is the 83rd post&#8230;and every 83rd post, Marsha takes a break and lets\u00a0ME post one.\u00a0 Hooray!\u00a0 Marsha is away, arguing with the editor and publisher at EEW Books, trying to keep all her crappy mistakes\u00a0IN the manuscript of our new book,\u00a0&#8220;Bludgeon the Clown,&#8221; now that\u00a0they&#8217;ve been edited out (and fixed).\u00a0 It&#8217;s vanity and hubris to think her departure from proper English is her &#8216;artistic prerogative.&#8217;\u00a0 She&#8217;ll argue and get concessions &#8211; and compliments &#8211; and come away satisfied&#8230;while the publishers will do whatever they want after she leaves, anyway.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a messy, but necessary process&#8230;.and it works.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve posted an illustration I did for the September &#8217;06 issue of Analog Magazine, for a story by Edward M. Lerner.\u00a0 It was a fun one to do&#8230;one of my favorites (though I&#8217;m no fan of war).\u00a0 -John\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*****This is the 83rd post&#8230;and every 83rd post, Marsha takes a break and lets\u00a0ME post one.\u00a0 Hooray!\u00a0 Marsha is away, arguing with the editor and publisher at EEW Books, trying to keep all her crappy mistakes\u00a0IN the manuscript of our new book,\u00a0&#8220;Bludgeon the Clown,&#8221; now that\u00a0they&#8217;ve been edited out (and fixed).\u00a0 It&#8217;s vanity and hubris &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=774\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alien Space Battle Thing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[79,56,28,210,176,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}