{"id":894,"date":"2023-09-15T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T08:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/?p=894"},"modified":"2023-09-15T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T08:48:07","slug":"short-stories-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/short-stories-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"101\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ShortStories-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-646\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Moving on through my collection, <em>When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em> and we come to the eleventh story, &#8216;The Call&#8217;. One of several very brief stories drawn from life: a snapshot of an evening. A snapshot of a generation gap&#8230; and because the story is so brief &#8211; less than a page &#8211; it is difficult to describe it without telling the story! There is a dance and a telephone call&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It was two minutes past one in the morning when the telephone rang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course none of them had heard it above the Rolling Stones LP which was playing and the general noise of dance and conversations shouted over the music. As his friend&#8217;s mother appeared in the doorway in her dressing gown&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;The Call&#8217; can be found in <em>When I Am Not Writing Poetry<\/em> &#8211; available <a href=\"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/books\/\">here<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/-\/e\/B07P9R562F\">Amazo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/-\/e\/B07P9R562F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">n<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving on through my collection, When I Am Not Writing Poetry and we come to the eleventh story, &#8216;The Call&#8217;. One of several very brief stories drawn from life: a snapshot of an evening. A snapshot of a generation gap&#8230; and because the story is so brief &#8211; less than a page &#8211; it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[19,39,71],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-chris-armstrong","tag-short-stories","tag-when-i-am-not-writing-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curatedlines.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}