{"id":1447,"date":"2010-07-06T00:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T04:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2010-07-05T00:45:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:45:45","slug":"story-of-the-month-alice-after-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Story of the Month &#8211; &#8220;Alice After the Mall&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydayfiction.com\/alice-after-the-mall-by-john-jasper-owens\/\">Alice After the Mall<\/a>&#8221; by John Jasper Owens shortly after it was published in <em>Every Day Fiction<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many good things about it but it&#8217;s the ending I keep thinking about.<\/p>\n<p>The first paragraph lets the reader know where Alice is and why she&#8217;s at the mall.\u00c2\u00a0 It sets up the scene and\u00c2\u00a0appears to be an\u00c2\u00a0ordinary situation.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes life changing decisions are made in ordinary places.<\/p>\n<p>I think Alice stays on course and doesn&#8217;t look behind her.\u00c2\u00a0 What do you think she does?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across &#8220;Alice After the Mall&#8221; by John Jasper Owens shortly after it was published in Every Day Fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 There are many good things about it but it&#8217;s the ending I keep thinking about. The first paragraph lets the reader know where Alice is and why she&#8217;s at the mall.\u00c2\u00a0 It sets up the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1447\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Story of the Month &#8211; &#8220;Alice After the Mall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[315,339,314],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-of-the-month","tag-alice-after-the-mall","tag-every-day-fiction","tag-john-jasper-owens","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}