{"id":846,"date":"2015-05-10T21:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2015-05-10T21:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:41:46","slug":"i-like-a-gershwin-tune-how-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"I like a Gershwin tune; how about you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out there&#8217;s a lot of stuff I like.  I like our new dishwasher and how it sings a happy song when it&#8217;s done&#8211;oh, I am unreasonably gleeful about that dishwasher.  I like the fact that strawberries are in season.  But that&#8217;s not why I&#8217;m doing these round-up posts&#8211;I&#8217;m doing an every-so-often post of short stories I&#8217;ve read and liked, that you might like too.  Or you can link things you&#8217;ve liked in the comments!  Up to you.<\/p>\n<p>Two of these are not short stories.  One is a project&#8211;my friend Hanne is doing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/a-girl-s-gotta-eat-how-to-be-your-own-wife\">crowdfunded food and domestic thought project<\/a> that should be interesting.  I subscribed to the last round of A Girl&#8217;s Gotta Eat, and it was full of recipe and food essay goodness.  The other is a poem:  <a href=\"http:\/\/mechaieh.livejournal.com\/345728.html\">a May poem my friend Peg wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, but on with the short stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/spring-2015\/monkey-king-faerie-queen-by-zen-cho\/\">Monkey King, Faerie Queen<\/a>, by Zen Cho (in Kaleidotrope)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com\/stories\/the-snake-oil-salesman-and-the-prophets-head\/\">The Snake-Oil Salesman and the Prophet&#8217;s Head<\/a>, by Shannon Peavey (in BCS)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/remembery-day\/\">Remembery Day<\/a>, by Sarah Pinsker (in Apex)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/suns-east-moons-west\/\">Sun&#8217;s East, Moon&#8217;s West<\/a>, by Merrie Haskell (in Lightspeed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out there&#8217;s a lot of stuff I like. I like our new dishwasher and how it sings a happy song when it&#8217;s done&#8211;oh, I am unreasonably gleeful about that dishwasher. I like the fact that strawberries are in season. But that&#8217;s not why I&#8217;m doing these round-up posts&#8211;I&#8217;m doing an every-so-often post [&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":[27,25,52],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-friends-rule","tag-my-uncle-has-a-barn","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\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}