{"id":4,"date":"2005-01-08T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=4"},"modified":"2005-02-24T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T17:32:04","slug":"so-close-and-yet-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"So close, and yet so far&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took Creative Writing in high school, as a senior. It was a very easy copout way of not taking a class where I would have to read novels and write papers and whatnot. You know what? It was the first writing class that I liked pretty much everything I wrote. There were few works in that class that I did not actually think were worthy of paper. Among the works that I enjoyed creating is my favorite series: &#8220;So Close and Yet So Far&#8230;&#8221; which was alternately dubbed &#8220;the stalker stories&#8221; by my class. My teacher felt that it was good enough to read to the class, and as anyone would expect the first comment I recieved when she was finished was: &#8220;man, that was creepy.&#8221; I guess I deserved that one. Three people have told me that they like it, so here it will be for all to read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=37\"> Chapter 1 <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/?page_id=38\"> Chapter 2 <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/?page_id=39\"> The Poem <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took Creative Writing in high school, as a senior. It was a very easy copout way of not taking a class where I would have to read novels and write papers and whatnot. You know what? It was the first writing class that I liked pretty much everything I wrote. There were few works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=4\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So close, and yet so far&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prose-and-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}