{"id":287,"date":"2013-03-30T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=287"},"modified":"2014-05-29T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:08:33","slug":"effigy-nights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Effigy Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Daedala and Yune Kyung Lee.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/lee_01_13\/\">Published<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<cite>Clarkesworld Magazine<\/cite>.  Reprinted in <cite>The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight<\/cite>, ed. Jonathan Strahan. \u00a0To be reprinted in Prime Books&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prime-books.com\/shop\/print-books\/the-years-best-science-fiction-fantasy-2014-edited-by-rich-horton\/\"><cite>The Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2014<\/cite><\/a>, ed. Rich Horton, and <cite>The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry<\/cite>, ed. Sean Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>The Saint of Guns and Seran originally came to me in an idea for a novel. \u00a0I scrapped the novel because the plot was a mess (no, trust me on this), but the characters were too good to waste.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if anyone who is better at art than I am wants to make me character paper dolls, please do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are connoisseurs of writing in Imulai Mokarengen, the city whose name means\u00a0<em>inkblot of the gods<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The city lies at the galaxy\u2019s dust-stranded edge, enfolding a moon that used to be a world, or a world that used to be a moon; no one is certain anymore. In the mornings its skies are radiant with clouds like the plumage of a bird ever-rising, and in the evenings the stars scatter light across skies stitched and unstitched by the comings and goings of fire-winged starships. Its walls are made of metal the color of undyed silk, and its streets bloom with aleatory lights, small solemn symphonies, the occasional duel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhalee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}