{"id":377,"date":"2004-11-02T06:25:36","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T12:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=377"},"modified":"2004-11-02T06:25:36","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T12:25:36","slug":"inspiration-from-strange-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/11\/02\/inspiration-from-strange-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration from Strange Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this in a spam the other day:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He soon came to a stop, however, and saw that another of the monsters had<br \/>\ncome upon him from the rear and was now, with its mate, circling closely<br \/>\naround him, while both uttered continuously their hoarse, savage cries. Rob<br \/>\nwondered why the Garment of Repulsion had not protected him from the blow of<br \/>\nthe bird&#8217;s wing; but, as a matter of fact, it had protected him<br \/>\nFor it was not the wing itself but the force of the eddying currents of air<br \/>\nthat had sent him whirling away from the monster&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, golly, what an interesting thing to have in spam to make it seem like a real message.  I almost feel like I should work it up into an actual story.  Oh, I&#8217;d have to edit it some, but it&#8217;s not a bad start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this in a spam the other day: &#8220;He soon came to a stop, however, and saw that another of the monsters had come upon him from the rear and was now, with its mate, circling closely around him, while both uttered continuously their hoarse, savage cries. Rob wondered why the Garment of Repulsion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail-entry","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}