{"id":3589,"date":"2018-01-19T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2018-02-06T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:17:51","slug":"to-be-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"to be. or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Happy2-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Happy2-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Happy2-Cover.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Happy2-Cover-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to be published in Pure Slush Vol. 15. It&#8217;s a short story &#8211; set in the future and titled <em>The Question<\/em> &#8211; about a middle-aged man having a midlife crisis. Thanks to editor Matt Potter for once\u00a0again selecting my work. Happy to see work by local writing friends Martin Christmas and Alex Robertson too!<\/p>\n<p>(<em>The Question<\/em> was awarded &#8216;Commended&#8217; in the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pcwc.org.au\/competition-results\/2016-trudy-grahamjulie-lewis-literary-award-for-prose\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">2016 Trudy Graham\/Julie Lewis Literary Award for Prose.\u00a0<\/a>This is its first publication.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Hap2bk\">Browse or purchase<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to be published in Pure Slush Vol. 15. It&#8217;s a short story &#8211; set in the future and titled The Question &#8211; about a middle-aged man having a midlife crisis. Thanks to editor Matt Potter for once\u00a0again selecting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}