{"id":4405,"date":"2008-07-11T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:16:55","slug":"gentlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4405","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of <a href=\"http:\/\/steven.davidmcrampton.com\/\">Steven<\/a> isn&#8217;t about Steven, shockingly enough.  Well, the -very- end will be.  I finished the fiction for Issue 23 on my lunch break today &#8211; Chen&#8217;s Chinese FTW.  I&#8217;m still kind of frustrated with the small number of words that are hitting the page, but at least I&#8217;m finally happy with their quality.  I&#8217;ve not seen many comic books have defined endings that run much longer than six issues.  This one, which is planned for 24, has time for a little bit of angst.  The assassin discovers that he has killed his own brethren, but does it matter?  Who has sent him?  Does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>I am very happy with how the end of this story is flowing into the beginning of the next.  There never really is a beginning or an end, is there?  :)  One story always seems to flow into the next and into the next.<\/p>\n<p>Issue Progress: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/picometer.writertopia.com\/words=23&amp;target=24\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of Steven isn&#8217;t about Steven, shockingly enough. Well, the -very- end will be. I finished the fiction for Issue 23 on my lunch break today &#8211; Chen&#8217;s Chinese FTW. I&#8217;m still kind of frustrated with the small number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=4405\">Continue reading <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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,14,15],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal","tag-steven","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-193","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}