{"id":1153,"date":"2017-05-05T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T16:47:10","slug":"mad-scientist-short-fiction-contest-and-the-small-wars-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/mad-scientist-short-fiction-contest-and-the-small-wars-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Scientist Short Fiction Contest and the Small Wars Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I had no less than three of my friends separately send me a link to the &#8220;Mad Scientist Contest&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ausa.org\/news\/1956-ausa-story-inspiration-mad-scientist-contest\">Link 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/community.apan.org\/wg\/tradoc-g2\/mad-scientist\/p\/warfare_2030-2050\">Link 2<\/a>\u00a0being run by Army TRADOC. The contest was apparently inspired by an article that had been written in 1956 in the &#8220;Army&#8221; magazine. Thank you Dave, Ron, and Garon for thinking of me.<\/p>\n<p>I perused the submission guidelines, brainstormed it with my writing group, and wrote the story. I&#8217;m quite proud of it. It didn&#8217;t win the contest but did place as a top 8 finalist. Part of that placement meant that it got\u00a0published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/\">Small Wars Journal<\/a>. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/iss\/201705\">link to the May issue<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/among-the-apple-trees\">link to the story itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I had no less than three of my friends separately send me a link to the &#8220;Mad Scientist Contest&#8221; Link 1, Link 2\u00a0being run by Army TRADOC. The contest was apparently inspired by an article that had been written in 1956 in the &#8220;Army&#8221; magazine. Thank you Dave, Ron, and Garon for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/mad-scientist-short-fiction-contest-and-the-small-wars-journal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mad Scientist Short Fiction Contest and the Small Wars Journal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}