{"id":112,"date":"2010-09-13T23:21:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgttodd.wordpress.com\/"},"modified":"2019-05-24T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T05:18:24","slug":"machine-mind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/books\/machine-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The working title for this one was &#8220;Music Man&#8221;. No, it has nothing to do with the American midwest or crafty con artists peddling musical instruments and breaking hearts.<\/p>\n<p>It has everything to do with the stirring of the blood that I feel whenever I listen to certain pieces of music. &#8230;and how that might play out in power armor combat, also a catastrophically fallen human empire that spanned a diversely populated galaxy, and an alien invasion of a tiny planet that used to be a member of that galactic empire.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the piece is in a pretty exciting\u00a0 place for me. The Jabberwocky Literary Agency has seen it, read it and requested some very good edits to improve it to the point where they&#8217;d like to try and sell it. I&#8217;m working those edits as hard as I can right now.<\/p>\n<p>And, finished the edits, sent it back to the Agency. More waiting. Fortunately I&#8217;m pretty good at waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The working title for this one was &#8220;Music Man&#8221;. No, it has nothing to do with the American midwest or crafty con artists peddling musical instruments and breaking hearts. It has everything to do with the stirring of the blood that I feel whenever I listen to certain pieces of music. &#8230;and how that might &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/books\/machine-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Machine Mind<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":534,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions\/1358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}