{"id":247,"date":"2011-03-22T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=247"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:45:22","slug":"speaking-of-swordfights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Of Swordfights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did it: <strong>zero draft<\/strong> of the <strong>haunted house thing<\/strong> is <strong>complete<\/strong>. My plan now is to put it to one side and work on something else for a bit, in a bid to build the necessary objectivity and creative juice to administer the Frankensteinian major surgery and spark of life this beast will need to become an actual functioning <strong>first draft<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I am mulling another <strong>short story<\/strong> &#8211; and, as often seems to happen with me, thinking about <strong>swordfights<\/strong>. Speaking of which, here (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.com\/news\/2011\/03\/behold-the-fruity-samurai.php\"><strong>Twitch<\/strong><\/a>) is my favourite thing on the internet this week. Behold&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/10995012\"><strong>The Fruity Samurai!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/10995012\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did it: zero draft of the haunted house thing is complete. My plan now is to put it to one side and work on something else for a bit, in a bid to build the necessary objectivity and creative juice to administer the Frankensteinian major surgery and spark of life this beast will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}