{"id":2998,"date":"2010-09-25T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T04:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2010-09-25T23:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T04:21:47","slug":"slowly-ripening-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Slowly Ripening Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Rest-at-Journeys-End.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3002\" title=\"Rest at Journey's End\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Rest-at-Journeys-End.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a>As the days grow golden and the nights deepen, many things are quietly fermenting in the back of my mind.  I&#8217;m thinking of autumnal cultures, such as Vulcans and Elves; I&#8217;m thinking of language as a uniter and a divider; I&#8217;m thinking of the travails of stem cell research.<\/p>\n<p>The most urgently bubbling vat is a long-suspended story close to my heart.  Those who watched me create the Embers\/Spider Silk universe have seen an early draft of its beginning.  For those who read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/crossedgenres.com\/archives\/013\/planetfall-by-athena-andreadis\/\">Planetfall<\/a><\/em>, its hero &#8212; and I use the male form on purpose &#8212; is the nameless first-person narrator in <em>Night Whispers<\/em>, the last section of that story.<\/p>\n<p>When I write about that world I live in it: it fills my head, it haunts my dreams.  So all else will have to wait, in the cricket-filled hush of early fall, until <em>The Wind Harp<\/em> sings.<\/p>\n<p>Image: <em>Rest at Journey&#8217;s End<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/iartiste.jimdo.com\/\">Heather D. Oliver<\/a>, depicting the end of <em>Night Whispers<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the days grow golden and the nights deepen, many things are quietly fermenting in the back of my mind. I&#8217;m thinking of autumnal cultures, such as Vulcans and Elves; I&#8217;m thinking of language as a uniter and a divider; I&#8217;m thinking of the travails of stem cell research. The most urgently bubbling vat is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-science-fiction","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}