{"id":1619,"date":"2014-07-10T08:09:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2014-07-10T08:09:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:09:29","slug":"it-doesnt-matter-whether-the-story-is-set-in-the-present-day-100-years-ago-hence-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/it-doesnt-matter-whether-the-story-is-set-in-the-present-day-100-years-ago-hence-or\/","title":{"rendered":"It doesn&#8217;t matter whether the story is set in the present day, 100 years ago hence, or . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter whether the story is set in the present day, 100 years ago hence, or in a place that has never and could never exist outside the pages of a book: The writer&#8217;s job is to present an utterly convincing and wholly seamless world,&#8221; Simon Morden, author of fantasy novel <em>Arcanum<\/em>. \u2014 The Writer Magazine, July 2014<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Ireland-Countryside.-Jim-C.-March.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1620 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Ireland-Countryside.-Jim-C.-March.jpg\" alt=\"Ireland Countryside. Jim C. March\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Photo by Jim C. March<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter whether the story is set in the present day, 100 years ago hence, or in a place that has never and could never exist outside the pages of a book: The writer&#8217;s job is to present an utterly convincing and wholly seamless world,&#8221; Simon Morden, author of fantasy novel Arcanum. \u2014 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[105,329,342,10],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-q7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}