{"id":14439,"date":"2013-06-17T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/?p=14439"},"modified":"2013-06-17T19:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:48:29","slug":"what-is-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/what-is-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n  <p>(&#8230;) When the man sits down again, Xiaoyi says, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you a gentle story.\u201d<br \/>\n  \u201cI\u2019ve heard such stories. They\u2019re liquid. Sticky, wet, filled with the smell of tears and mucus. I don\u2019t like them.\u201d<br \/>\n  \u201cStories are not liquid.\u201d Xiaoyi glares at him.<br \/>\n  Before the man can argue with her, something tumbles from above and falls into his lap. It\u2019s warm, furry, and squirms around: a pure white puppy! Round, dark eyes. Wet nose. Oh, it\u2019s sticking out its pink tongue and licking the man\u2019s finger.<br \/>\n  \u201cStories are like dogs,\u201d Xiaoyi explains. \u201cWhen called, they appear.\u201d<br \/>\n  \u201cHow did you do this?\u201d the man asks, carefully cradling the puppy and watching it suck on his finger.\n  <br><br>\n  (Tang Fei: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/call-girl\/\">Call Girl<\/a>, translated by Ken Liu)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Awesome story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8230;) When the man sits down again, Xiaoyi says, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you a gentle story.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve heard such stories. They\u2019re liquid. Sticky, wet, filled with the smell of tears and mucus. I don\u2019t like them.\u201d \u201cStories are not liquid.\u201d Xiaoyi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/what-is-a-story\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14441,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions\/14441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}