{"id":3101,"date":"2022-07-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2022-07-21T20:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:57:44","slug":"this-place-is-best-shunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/07\/this-place-is-best-shunned\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Place is Best Shunned&#8221; &#x1f631;&#x26ea;&#xfe0f;&#x1f991;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My latest dark tale, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2022\/07\/27\/this-place-is-best-shunned-david-erik-nelson\/\">This Place is Best Shunned<\/a>,&#8221; is free to read on <em>Tor.com<\/em> <em>RIGHT<\/em><strong><em> NOW!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Allie and Rooster are heading down to Asheville for Rooster\u2019s new gig, a cushy stint as artist-in-residence at UNC. Rooster is more of a con artist than maker of art, but Allie doesn\u2019t mind, because he\u2019s good-looking, charming, and values what she is: a girl with a keen eye for abandoned places and a knack for getting into them. But when they stumble upon an old backcountry church\u2014the perfect backdrop for Rooster\u2019s latest project\u2014they discover that some \u201cabandoned\u201d places have a knack for keeping themselves occupied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(Amazing cover art is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvpalumbo.com\/\">David Palumbo<\/a>!!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest dark tale, &#8220;This Place is Best Shunned,&#8221; is free to read on Tor.com RIGHT NOW!!! Allie and Rooster are heading down to Asheville for Rooster\u2019s new gig, a cushy stint as artist-in-residence at UNC. Rooster is more of a con artist than maker of art, but Allie doesn\u2019t mind, because he\u2019s good-looking, charming, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/07\/this-place-is-best-shunned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;This Place is Best Shunned&#8221; &#x1f631;&#x26ea;&#xfe0f;&#x1f991;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[85,11],"tags":[655,46,69,30,507,572,341],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}