{"id":6385,"date":"2017-04-05T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2017-04-05T17:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:26:33","slug":"new-story-a-little-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=6385","title":{"rendered":"New story: A Little Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OpiumDen.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6386\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6386\" src=\"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OpiumDen.jpg\" alt=\"OpiumDen\" width=\"458\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OpiumDen.jpg 736w, https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/OpiumDen-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phew. Fresh off the train from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/unsung\/events\/238079387\/?rv=me1&amp;_af=event&amp;_af_eid=238079387&amp;https=on\" target=\"_blank\">Unsung Live #8<\/a>. Met some lovely people, listened to some lovely (and scary and violent and hilarious) fiction, and got to share <em>A Little Star<\/em>, my\u00a0story of an opium den, a convict, and a shiny little something. It&#8217;s online now, if you fancy reading it.<\/p>\n<p><em>A lamp with a shade of red paper. No matter what draughty lodge or bawdy house Benjamin laid his head for the night, he saw that Lime Street crimson whenever he closed his eyes, the way another man might see the face of a girl he loved, or a child a ghost in the doorway.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/8690614\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on Patreon&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew. Fresh off the train from Unsung Live #8. Met some lovely people, listened to some lovely (and scary and violent and hilarious) fiction, and got to share A Little Star, my\u00a0story of an opium den, a convict, and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=6385\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}