{"id":199,"date":"2013-05-18T06:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T13:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2013-08-17T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T02:42:32","slug":"behind-door-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"behind door three…"},"content":{"rendered":"

yesterday at the oregon scbwi conference, this was next to my parking spot:<\/p>\n

\"behind<\/a>

choose.<\/p><\/div>\n

why are there three<\/em> manhole-type covers? in a row? mysterious.<\/p>\n

now imagine that these lovelies aren’t in a dirt strip bordering an airport hotel parking lot. they’re deep in a dark forest. and you’re lost; and there are wolves; and you’ve twisted your ankle trying to escape the pack.<\/p>\n

clearly each leads to an entirely different realm. your fate is determined by which you choose. but you have no way of knowing what lies behind (er, under) each portal.<\/p>\n

maybe in reality, these don’t lead down to a labyrinth of subterranean tunnels filled with unhappy monsters, or to a storm-battered ledge on an alien mountain, or to the magic shoe closet of a spoiled princelet bent on world domination.<\/p>\n

maybe. but in reality, don’t you wish they would?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

yesterday at the oregon scbwi conference, this was next to my parking spot: why are there three manhole-type covers? in a row? mysterious. now imagine that these lovelies aren’t in a dirt strip bordering an airport hotel parking lot. they’re deep in a dark forest. and you’re lost; and there are wolves; and you’ve twisted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,8,14,27],"tags":[119,117,118],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-see","category-tales","category-write","category-ya","tag-fate","tag-manhole","tag-monsters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FBNg-3d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.haleyisleib.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}