{"id":2864,"date":"2020-08-15T16:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2020-08-15T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:46:20","slug":"the-start-of-the-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2864","title":{"rendered":"The start of the swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the last year I&#8217;ve been working on a series of stories about monsters and friendship. They&#8217;re dedicated to my friend John Wiswell, because John is a good friend and I love his entire face off. At some point&#8211;ideally 10\/31\/21 will be that point&#8211;I will put together a chapbook. I have already been talking to another friend about cover illustration. It&#8217;s gonna be great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the meantime, here&#8217;s the first of the stories, out from Translunar Travelers&#8217; Lounge: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/translunartravelerslounge.com\/2020\/08\/15\/the-swarm-of-giant-gnats-i-sent-after-kent-my-assistant-manager-by-marissa-lingen\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Swarm of Giant Gnats I Sent After Kent, My Assistant Manager.<\/a> This one is also dedicated to Stella Evans, another friend I love fiercely. I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last year I&#8217;ve been working on a series of stories about monsters and friendship. They&#8217;re dedicated to my friend John Wiswell, because John is a good friend and I love his entire face off. At some point&#8211;ideally 10\/31\/21 will be that point&#8211;I will put together a chapbook. I have already been talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,52],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing","tag-short-story-glory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}