{"id":109,"date":"2010-02-05T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amancuso.org\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2011-08-12T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T18:41:32","slug":"differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/differences","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Differences (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

He ushered me in hastily. “Let’s go, let’s go,” he said, turning towards a stack of loose papers and thick folders. “I leave soon and need to make sure you know everything I’ve taught you. Mother Repetition and all that.”<\/p>\n

I let the door close behind me. “Mother Repetition?”<\/p>\n

He shot me an impatient look as he handed me a hide-bound scroll. “Repetition is the mother of learning,” he said. “Surely you’ve heard that before.”<\/p>\n

“That’s a human saying,” I gently pointed out, stepping over a spilled pile of small books to take the scroll.<\/p>\n

“Yes, well, what are you doing interacting with humans at all if you haven’t studied us enough?” His brows lowered and he looked almost hurt.<\/p>\n

“Have you studied my people before interacting with me?” I asked mildly, rerolling the scroll and securing its cord to my shoulder strap.<\/p>\n

He flung up a loose-fingered hand, the other reaching for a sheet of paper yellowed with age. “Of course not. I don’t have time for such things. What does that have to do with anything?”<\/p>\n

I just looked at him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He ushered me in hastily. “Let’s go, let’s go,” he said, turning towards a stack of loose papers and thick folders. “I leave soon and need to make sure you know everything I’ve taught you. Mother Repetition and all that.” I let the door close behind me. “Mother Repetition?” He shot me an impatient look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}