{"id":3151,"date":"2018-06-12T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T23:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T17:53:43","slug":"to-the-sci-fi-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/06\/12\/to-the-sci-fi-gazette\/","title":{"rendered":"To The Sci-fi Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The SciFi Gazette&#8211;shining beacon of non-clich\u00e9 speculative fiction. Submission guidelines had listed discouraged themes; \u2018dystopias\u2019 were number one: bad news for a pessimist like myself.<\/p>\n<p>The state of the world sank home for me when The Gazette\u2019s most hackneyed theme changed to \u2018utopias.\u2019 Still, they never published my bleak predictions.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d intended to kick down the door, but it already hung on its hinges. Scattered papers decorated shattered furniture. I luckily bagged a tatty anthology edition for later reading.<\/p>\n<p>The editor was, of course, not there. On her desk, I deposited my latest story. I had high hopes&#8211;my first utopia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/trismatthews.com\">Tris Matthews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SciFi Gazette&#8211;shining beacon of non-clich\u00e9 speculative fiction. Submission guidelines had listed discouraged themes; \u2018dystopias\u2019 were number one: bad news for a pessimist like myself. The state of the world sank home for me when The Gazette\u2019s most hackneyed theme changed to \u2018utopias.\u2019 Still, they never published my bleak predictions. I\u2019d intended to kick down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7062,7061,5169,7056,2265,2805,7059,2169,7052,7057,4798,134,7060,82,7053,7055,2697,4250,7058,7054,5743,3880],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-anthology","tag-bad-news","tag-beacon","tag-cliche","tag-desk","tag-door","tag-dystopia","tag-furniture","tag-gazette","tag-guidelines","tag-hinges","tag-home","tag-pessimist","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-speculative-fiction","tag-story","tag-submission","tag-themes","tag-tris-matthews","tag-utopia","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}