{"id":4341,"date":"2026-03-02T09:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:18:21","slug":"i-speak-fluent-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4341","title":{"rendered":"I speak fluent human"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New story out in Clarkesworld: <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/lingen_03_26\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/lingen_03_26\/\">Person, Place, Thing<\/a>! This was such a fun voice for me to fall into writing, and it ended up surprising me with how many Muppet references it wanted. Usually I am opposed to &#8220;I am but a servant of the muse&#8221; claptrap from writers, but when that muse is demanding aliens who have very earnestly learned from mid-to-late period Henson&#8230;well, what am I to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New story out in Clarkesworld: Person, Place, Thing! This was such a fun voice for me to fall into writing, and it ended up surprising me with how many Muppet references it wanted. Usually I am opposed to &#8220;I am but a servant of the muse&#8221; claptrap from writers, but when that muse is demanding [&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-4341","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\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}