{"id":194857,"date":"2008-08-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/14\/damn-i-cant-write-this-badly\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T10:00:00","slug":"damn-i-cant-write-this-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/14\/damn-i-cant-write-this-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn.  I Can&#8217;t Write this Badly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s time for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2008 Results.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m relieved that there people who write worse than I do, even though they are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">trying<\/span> to write badly.<\/p>\n<p>The winner, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">if you can call it that<\/span>, was one Garrison Spik of Washington, D.C. :<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24\/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped &#8220;Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed&#8230;.Horrified, but impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s time for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2008 Results. I&#8217;m relieved that there people who write worse than I do, even though they are trying to write badly. The winner, if you can call it that, was one Garrison Spik of Washington, D.C. : Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1158,1002,1175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-aggravation","category-good-writing","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}