{"id":3512,"date":"2022-04-20T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T22:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2022-04-20T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T22:39:30","slug":"among-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=3512","title":{"rendered":"Among the best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m very pleased to tell you that one of my stories from 2020 (&#8220;The Past, Like a River in Flood&#8221;) has been chosen by Rich Horton for inclusion in his <em>Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition<\/em>. The table of contents can be seen on Rich&#8217;s blog,<a href=\"http:\/\/rrhorton.blogspot.com\/2022\/04\/table-of-contents-years-best-science.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I wrote that story, I was thinking about natural disasters I had witnessed, some quite close up, and some institutional failures they&#8217;d left in their wake. I didn&#8217;t really want a story about institutional failure and its human cost to be quite as timely as it turned out to be, but&#8230;I&#8217;m glad the story resonated, all the same, and I&#8217;m still very proud of it. And so happy to be in a volume with so many other stories I enjoyed, and some that are new to me, some I&#8217;ll be glad to discover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to tell you that one of my stories from 2020 (&#8220;The Past, Like a River in Flood&#8221;) has been chosen by Rich Horton for inclusion in his Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2021 Edition. The table of contents can be seen on Rich&#8217;s blog, here. When I wrote that story, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,52],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing","tag-short-story-glory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","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=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}