{"id":403,"date":"2020-10-03T07:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/?page_id=403"},"modified":"2020-12-02T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T22:04:47","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/?page_id=403","title":{"rendered":"Fiction and Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Skip straight to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"#Fiction\">Fiction<\/a> * <a href=\"#Essays\">Personal Essays<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"Fiction\"><\/a>Fiction<\/h4>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bare.pdf\">Bare<\/a>,&#8221; July 2020, Please See Me #5, COVID Special Section<br \/>\nDespite the measures the protagonist of this flash fiction piece has taken to protect his family from the infection risk posed by his job as an anesthesiologist, he yearns for some closeness. And he gets it\u2014in the limited way that he can.<\/p>\n<h4><a name=\"Essays\"><\/a>Personal Essays<\/h4>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Moria_Peacock.pdf\">Snipe Hunting in Los Angeles<\/a>,\u201d November 2020, MORIA<br \/>\nI stalked a peacock around west LA by bicycle in the summer of 2020. I failed many times before I finally found him, but I also discovered the pleasures of exploring my city at the street level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AgainstDarkness.pdf\">Fighting Against the Darkness<\/a>,\u201d December 2019, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles<br \/>\nThe death of my father-in-law and the Sandy Hook massacre helped me realize why human beings shine their lights at the darkest time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skip straight to: Fiction * Personal Essays Fiction \u201cBare,&#8221; July 2020, Please See Me #5, COVID Special Section Despite the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/403\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}