{"id":13333,"date":"2014-03-18T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/03\/18\/suricattus-the-days-after-episode-i-am\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T19:05:16","slug":"suricattus-the-days-after-episode-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/03\/18\/suricattus-the-days-after-episode-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/suricattus.tumblr.com\/post\/79975469941\/the-days-after-episode-i-am-reminded-of-the-day-i\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">suricattus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The days-after-episode, I am reminded of the day I got hold of the \u201cteachers edition\u201d of a textbook where they had reprinted one of my short stories. \u00a0And in the back, as with every teacher\u2019s guide, they had a list of questions about the story for the class to answer &#8211; and the\u00a0<em>answers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And some of the answers were\u00a0<em>wrong. <\/em>Or at least, inaccurate as hell in their assertions. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>(yes I know, the writer is often the last to know their actual themes. \u00a0But trust me, the things they claimed I intended in the story were\u2026.not accurate. \u00a0That might be what was\u00a0<\/em>read<em> into the story, but it wasn\u2019t what I was\u00a0<\/em>thinking<em> when I <\/em>wrote<em> it\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My point being\u2026 whatever we think, whatever we\u2019re pretty damned sure of, whatever we extrapolate\u2026 it\u2019s just that, us taking the visible pieces and trying to half-ass a full picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>suricattus: The days-after-episode, I am reminded of the day I got hold of the \u201cteachers edition\u201d of a textbook where they had reprinted one of my short stories. \u00a0And in the back, as with every teacher\u2019s guide, they had a list of questions about the story for the class to answer &#8211; and the\u00a0answers. And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/03\/18\/suricattus-the-days-after-episode-i-am\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1336,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}