{"id":4427,"date":"2026-08-10T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:36:18","slug":"ghost-story-with-tomato-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4427","title":{"rendered":"Ghost story with tomato soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New story out in Strange Horizons today! <a href=\"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/fiction\/scarcely-gone\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/fiction\/scarcely-gone\/\">Scarcely Gone<\/a> is a thing I haven&#8217;t done much of: it&#8217;s a ghost story. In this case it&#8217;s a ghost story with a John Denver title: &#8220;he&#8217;d rather play his banjo in the morning when the moon is scarcely gone&#8221; from &#8220;I Guess He&#8217;d Rather Be in Colorado.&#8221; That makes this one of a random series of stories I&#8217;ve written from fragments of my dad&#8217;s music, which are not linked in any other way except that their titles came from singing artists Dad loved around the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(This is why, incidentally, &#8220;the story behind the story&#8221; is often so hard to write: because &#8220;how did you come to write this story?&#8221; often has a beginning like &#8220;well, when I was preverbal my parents listened to a bunch of James Taylor, so&#8230;.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, hope you enjoy my foray into the world of ghost stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New story out in Strange Horizons today! Scarcely Gone is a thing I haven&#8217;t done much of: it&#8217;s a ghost story. In this case it&#8217;s a ghost story with a John Denver title: &#8220;he&#8217;d rather play his banjo in the morning when the moon is scarcely gone&#8221; from &#8220;I Guess He&#8217;d Rather Be in Colorado.&#8221; [&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-4427","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\/4427","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=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}