{"id":790,"date":"2017-05-30T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=790"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:00:02","slug":"its-not-the-size-of-your-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not The Size Of Your Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jester-Uprising-86.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-791\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jester-Uprising-86-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jester Uprising-86\" width=\"712\" height=\"925\" \/><\/a>Book Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Its Not The Size Of Your Clown&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peevish, North Dakota.\u00a0 It seems that the smaller the clown, the angrier, more irritable they are.\u00a0 This image was made during the last of three riots that day.\u00a0 There was no media coverage and no arrests.\u00a0 In fact, nobody in town even realized they had an infestation of teeny-tiny clowns&#8230;or what they were so upset about.<\/p>\n<p>While clowns come in all shapes and sizes, the tiny ones are the trickiest.\u00a0 They come smaller than you&#8217;d think possible and they get into everything.\u00a0 They wrote an amusing\u00a0folk tail or two\u00a0about one no bigger than a thumb&#8230;but the teeniest ones are often mistaken for a viral outbreak (clever).\u00a0 When I agreed to have a wild party with that kooky bunch, I didn&#8217;t realize I&#8217;d be hosting it in my belly for three solid days (not solid&#8230;ugh!!!).<\/p>\n<p><em>***Another page that did not make the final cut of our new book, &#8220;Bludgeon the Clown.&#8221;\u00a0 The illustration,\u00a0by John Allemand,\u00a0was originally commissioned for the June 2003 cover of Analog Magazine.\u00a0 -Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Excerpt: Its Not The Size Of Your Clown&#8230; Peevish, North Dakota.\u00a0 It seems that the smaller the clown, the angrier, more irritable they are.\u00a0 This image was made during the last of three riots that day.\u00a0 There was no media coverage and no arrests.\u00a0 In fact, nobody in town even realized they had an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Not The Size Of Your Clown<\/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":[125],"tags":[56,210,128,176,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}