{"id":159,"date":"2013-12-18T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-12-18T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:07:07","slug":"science-fiction-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did two short stories previously (one finished, one being worked on) that are science fiction. \u00a0I enjoy it a lot but those two were mostly just big idea things or, well, shlocky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Testing Grounds&#8221; (as it&#8217;s called now) is actually what I&#8217;d think of as science fiction &#8211; near future science fiction. \u00a0And, of course, since this is my erotica pen name, yes, it will be erotica. \u00a0With a transformation bend to it. \u00a0But, still science fiction. \u00a0This is more difficult than the two other stories because I&#8217;m actually trying to come up with little thoughts on what could be possible down the road.<\/p>\n<p>And *that* feels weird because this is erotica. \u00a0Part of me thinks is kind of a waste because, well, won&#8217;t (or don&#8217;t) most people skip ahead to the sexy bits? \u00a0Or is that wrong? \u00a0Do people enjoy the actual little bits of story in short erotica? \u00a0That&#8217;d be an interesting question to ask.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s fun regardless of who else reads or enjoys it and I&#8217;m learning things while I do it so it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I&#8217;m 2400 words in on the new story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did two short stories previously (one finished, one being worked on) that are science fiction. \u00a0I enjoy it a lot but those two were mostly just big idea things or, well, shlocky. &#8220;Testing Grounds&#8221; (as it&#8217;s called now) is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/?p=159\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Science Fiction Thoughts<\/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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42NMN-2z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hidden-shelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}