{"id":6228,"date":"2020-06-26T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T07:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/townhouse\/articles\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/"},"modified":"2020-06-26T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T07:52:01","slug":"the-walls-of-time-and-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The walls of time and space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really interesting feedback on our excursion into the present tense last week. More on that \u2013 sort of \u2013 in a bit. But first may we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A toot on a trumpet<\/li>\n<li>A fat man thumping a kettle drum<\/li>\n<li>A peacock riding a donkey<\/li>\n<li>A small elephant with a richly jewelled caparison<\/li>\n<li>A cart full of slightly tired dancers in leotards and top hats<\/li>\n<li>Some children handing out bottles of water<\/li>\n<li>A rumpus, a brouhaha and a hullabaloo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>It is the 2020 launch of our Ultimate Novel Writing Course.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This course won\u2019t be for everyone. It\u2019s quite demanding and it\u2019s quite expensive. But if you were thinking of doing an MA or MFA course with an emphasis on creative writing, then our UNWC is probably something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve included more about all this in a PS. We ran a course last year (it\u2019s just finishing up now) and it was excellent. That said, we\u2019ve learned stuff in the course of 2019\/20 and we\u2019re aiming for this year\u2019s course to be even better. If you\u2019re interested \u2013 and, to repeat, this isn\u2019t for everyone \u2013 then do read more below. (<a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/ultimate-novel-writing-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bx-link\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Or just pop over here for more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Righty-ho. That\u2019s one thing.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing to say is that <strong>my Friday email next week<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>may come to you on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday;<\/li>\n<li>it will be very short;<\/li>\n<li>it will ask you to take one simple action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that\u2019ll be that.<\/p>\n<p>Normal service will resume the week after \u2013 at which point I\u2019ll tell you exactly what I was doing and why I was doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>Nuffothat.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s turn to the altogether more interesting topic of <strong>the walls of time and space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The big takeaway from last week\u2019s excursion to the present tense was that you don\u2019t have to isolate yourself in a little dot of always-on consciousness. You can just talk about the external world, and the recent past, and the near future, and your narrator\u2019s thoughts and memories in a much more fluid, more natural sounding way.<\/p>\n<p>Now I got quite a lot of correspondence on that email. Much of it \u2013 oh, OK, most of it \u2013 was concerned with moustaches and tress-tossing. But a few people wanted to know if that I had similar observations in relation to the past tense.<\/p>\n<p>Well \u2013 kinda.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, the past tense doesn\u2019t lure you into the same bad habits. But it\u2019s still possible to write a past-tense story with the narrative viewpoint jammed at the same distance from the protagonist and the story the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps we see everything at middle-distance focus \u2013 windows, coffee cups, mattresses \u2013 but see nothing that\u2019s either tiny or huge, nothing either utterly intimate or broadly universal.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you handle things really carefully (and have a dab of genius) you might just write a wonderful novel that way.<\/p>\n<p>More likely, though, you\u2019ll bore the reader.<\/p>\n<p>So mix things up. Cheat. And cheat merrily. As often and wildly as you like.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s say your needs you to follow Character A and Character B through some fairly tedious city streets. Fine. So do that. But you can pull in anything from anywhere along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, this little chunk narrated by my own little Fiona Griffiths:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>The bar is only a twenty-minute walk away and parking could be difficult, so we walk. After a couple of minutes, Buzz puts his arm around me and squeezes me in close. It\u2019s a gesture that moves me every time he does it. Like I\u2019m not just being hooked in close to one large and well-proportioned male body, but like I\u2019m being gathered back into the world of the living.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>It makes me think of those astronauts dangling in space on the end of their tethering ropes. You think that those ropes are pipes feeding air to the space suit, but they\u2019re not. They\u2019re just ropes. If someone cut the rope or unhitched it from the spacecraft, the astronaut would be left dangling for ever, hanging a thousand miles above the Earth, waiting to die. Buzz\u2019s enfolding arm brings me in from the void, through the airlock, back to the community of the human race.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>I usually become girly and affectionate when I feel these things. I become that now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0On the one hand, this is just a comment about Fiona\u2019s boyfriend squeezing her close and her warmly affectionate feelings about that.<\/p>\n<p>And on the other hand \u2013 wow!<\/p>\n<p>All he\u2019s actually done is squeeze her close. But what she talks about is being an astronaut dangling alone in space, until Buzz brings her \u201cin from the void, through the airlock, back to the community of the human race.\u201d There\u2019s such a huge gap between their actual situation (a normal, short walk) and the one in her head that we feel the power of his gesture far more than we would otherwise have done.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019ve been able to skip a dull little description of early-evening Cardiff, because we\u2019ve just thrown in an utterly unexpected description of dangling astronauts. No mattresses or coffee cups there. Note that the passage ends with the short sentence, \u201cI become that now.\u201d That \u201cnow\u201d marks the transition from flight-of-fancy to dutiful-return to the actual present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll give you another example.<\/p>\n<p>In this instance, Fiona is hooked up with a trawler captain (Honnold) by video link. Fiona\u2019s boss wants to know if Fiona was the mystery woman on board the trawler. If Honnold answers truthfully that she was, her career as a detective will be over. Here\u2019s how the moment goes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>Jackson [Fiona\u2019s boss] waves a hand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>At me, at the chair, at the end of my career.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>I stand up, of course. There\u2019s nothing else to do. Move towards my doom, but \u2013 a funny thing \u2013 have this almost literal sense of getting smaller as I approach. A kind of Alice in Wonderland experience, in which I find myself shrinking until, by the time I have somehow clambered onto that evilly rocking seat, I feel myself no bigger than a tiny white mouse, nibbling, and twitching, and combing my whiskers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>I face the screen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>Honnold\u2019s face, but I\u2019m so spacey, so gluey with apprehension, that I can read nothing at all in his expression, his tone, his smile.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>Somewhere beyond the orbit of Pluto, I hear Jackson say, \u2018Can you see all right, Captain?\u2019 Jackson adjusts the webcam at our end and rolls my chair forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>\u2018Aye, that\u2019s fine.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>\u2018And? Is this the woman?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>There\u2019s a pause.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:20px;\"><em>I feel the silence fill with the bones of a thousand winters, the death of galaxies. My limbs are lead. My mouth is glue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again, this is as wildly different from that window-mattress-coffee-cup view as you could imagine. Fiona has become a small white mouse, travelled beyond the orbit of Pluto, waited a thousand winters and witnessed the death of galaxies \u2013 and she\u2019s done all this, whilst making a very short video-call.<\/p>\n<p>Those vastly over-the-top comparisons are obviously a way to emphasise how much this moment matters. But they also turn time and space into a rubber that you can bend as far and as creatively as you fancy. I\u2019ve done that here with a narrator using the present tense, but the same basic approach would work just fine with the past.<\/p>\n<p>Yes: my first-person narrator writes in a handbrake-off sort of way and you need a basic synchrony between the images you use and the person you\u2019re dealing with, but the basic approach can be used almost anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>And also \u2013<\/p>\n<p>A weird thing happens. Even though these two passages relate merely to (i) a conventional loving boyfriend-girlfriend gesture, and (ii) two people looking at each other via video, the whole book seems to have enlarged.<\/p>\n<p>The action seems bigger. The emotional stakes seem greater. The whole canvas seems enlarged and more alive. And a boring street scene \/ office scene takes on a colour and a charge that it could never have had with imagery drawn from the mattress-window-coffee-cup playbook. Those are a lot of cheap wins, right? Plus it\u2019s fun to do.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to take a peek at the <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/ultimate-novel-writing-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bx-link\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">UNWC info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember too that next week you will be getting a very short email from me on a random day of the week. Everything will be explained (and back to normal) in two weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, though? That damn peacock has fallen off the donkey and the elephant has made off with one of the dancers. I\u2019m off to deal with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Give me one of your space &amp; time bending comparisons \/ images. You get a double vodka if you beat a thousand winters. If you also travel beyond the orbit of Pluto, I will have the vodka brought to you by elephant.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>AND I&#8217;M NOT JUST SAYING THAT. I REALLY WILL.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really interesting feedback on our excursion into the present tense last week. More on that \u2013 sort of \u2013 in a bit. But first may we have: A toot on a trumpet A fat man thumping a kettle drum A peacock riding a donkey A small elephant with a richly jewelled caparison A cart full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrys-friday-email"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jericho Writers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The walls of time and space &#8211; Jericho Writers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Really interesting feedback on our excursion into the present tense last week. More on that \u2013 sort of \u2013 in a bit. But first may we have: A toot on a trumpet A fat man thumping a kettle drum A peacock riding a donkey A small elephant with a richly jewelled caparison A cart full\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jericho Writers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jerichowriters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-26T07:52:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Harry Bingham\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@JerichoWriters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@JerichoWriters\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Harry Bingham\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Harry Bingham\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/34f531ec178a2b069ca3debe26c60e5a\"},\"headline\":\"The walls of time and space\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-26T07:52:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/\"},\"wordCount\":1521,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Harry\u2019s Friday email\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/\",\"name\":\"The walls of time and space &#8211; Jericho Writers\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-26T07:52:01+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The walls of time and space\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/\",\"name\":\"Jericho Writers\",\"description\":\"Getting you published\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Jericho Writers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cropped-footer-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cropped-footer-logo.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Jericho Writers\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jerichowriters\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/JerichoWriters\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jerichowriters\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jericho-writers\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcs1qhjwLR6bQYDR2x3PbOw\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/34f531ec178a2b069ca3debe26c60e5a\",\"name\":\"Harry Bingham\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/harry-bingham_avatar-96x96.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/harry-bingham_avatar-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/harry-bingham_avatar-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Harry Bingham\"},\"description\":\"Write novels and non-fic. I've published trad &amp; self-pub. Love both. Best known for my Fiona Griffiths crime series. Oh yes, and I'm the capo di tutti capi at Jericho Writers.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/author\/harryjericho\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Jericho Writers","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"The walls of time and space &#8211; Jericho Writers","og_description":"Really interesting feedback on our excursion into the present tense last week. More on that \u2013 sort of \u2013 in a bit. But first may we have: A toot on a trumpet A fat man thumping a kettle drum A peacock riding a donkey A small elephant with a richly jewelled caparison A cart full","og_url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/","og_site_name":"Jericho Writers","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jerichowriters","article_published_time":"2020-06-26T07:52:01+00:00","author":"Harry Bingham","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@JerichoWriters","twitter_site":"@JerichoWriters","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Harry Bingham","Estimated reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/"},"author":{"name":"Harry Bingham","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/34f531ec178a2b069ca3debe26c60e5a"},"headline":"The walls of time and space","datePublished":"2020-06-26T07:52:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/"},"wordCount":1521,"commentCount":3,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Harry\u2019s Friday email"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/","url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/","name":"The walls of time and space &#8211; Jericho Writers","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-06-26T07:52:01+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/the-walls-of-time-and-space\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The walls of time and space"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/","name":"Jericho Writers","description":"Getting you published","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#organization","name":"Jericho Writers","url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cropped-footer-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cropped-footer-logo.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Jericho Writers"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jerichowriters","https:\/\/x.com\/JerichoWriters","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jerichowriters\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/jericho-writers\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcs1qhjwLR6bQYDR2x3PbOw"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/#\/schema\/person\/34f531ec178a2b069ca3debe26c60e5a","name":"Harry Bingham","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/harry-bingham_avatar-96x96.jpg","url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/harry-bingham_avatar-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/harry-bingham_avatar-96x96.jpg","caption":"Harry Bingham"},"description":"Write novels and non-fic. I've published trad &amp; self-pub. Love both. Best known for my Fiona Griffiths crime series. Oh yes, and I'm the capo di tutti capi at Jericho Writers.","url":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/author\/harryjericho\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}