{"id":431,"date":"2012-05-03T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T00:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=431"},"modified":"2012-05-02T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T00:19:11","slug":"am-i-the-only-one-who-does-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Am I the Only One Who Does This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-432\" title=\"8ballbunny\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/8ballbunny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" \/>Whenever I submit something to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fsf\/\">Fantasy and Science Fiction<\/a>, packing something into an envelope to send to Hoboken via surface mail to meet their quaint submission requirements, I can&#8217;t help but think of Bugs Bunny at the end of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0042177\/\">8 Ball Bunny<\/a>&#8221; when he realizes that the baby penguin he has worked so hard to get to Antarctica was actually born in Hoboken.\u00a0 I literally can&#8217;t print the mailing label without saying &#8220;HoBOken!&#8221; with the emphasis on the second syllable like Bugs does.\u00a0 It never fails to cheer me up.\u00a0 Perhaps that&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t allow online submissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I submit something to Fantasy and Science Fiction, packing something into an envelope to send to Hoboken via surface mail to meet their quaint submission requirements, I can&#8217;t help but think of Bugs Bunny at the end of &#8220;8 Ball Bunny&#8221; when he realizes that the baby penguin he has worked so hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}