{"id":684,"date":"2007-08-11T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2007-08-11T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T15:03:00","slug":"the-trail-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"The Trail of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering the webs, I came across the New York Foundation for the Arts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyfa.org\/level2.asp?id=1&#038;fid=1\">site<\/a>, including info on artists&#8217; fellowships.  A quick perusal of the app reveals what they want from you:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A representation of your recent artistic work within the last 5 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This represents a large corpus of work for, let&#8217;s say, <a href=\"http:\/\/outgrabes.blogspot.com\/\">Jess<\/a>, but for me?  Let&#8217;s see&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several drafts of the Magnum Space Opus, the most recent of which being written mainly in a single month.<\/li>\n<li>A play written under similar restraints.<\/li>\n<li>One piece of flash fiction, sent to Artvoice and rejected.<\/li>\n<li>One sci-fi short story, sent to a few magazines and rejected.<\/li>\n<li>A version of Jorinda and Joringel.<\/li>\n<li>Another short story submitted to a contest.  No prize awarded.<\/li>\n<li>Another few remarkably horrible short stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of this has been published, of course.  I have yet to develop the discipline to really edit stuff (spell-check is enough, right?) and there&#8217;s always another ephemeral concept waiting in the wings, begging for my attention.  The <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">next <\/span>project, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">that <\/span>will be the one I <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">really <\/span>throw myself into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering the webs, I came across the New York Foundation for the Arts site, including info on artists&#8217; fellowships. A quick perusal of the app reveals what they want from you: &#8220;A representation of your recent artistic work within the last 5 years.&#8221; This represents a large corpus of work for, let&#8217;s say, Jess, but [&hellip;]<\/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-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}