{"id":1367,"date":"1996-06-11T20:18:28","date_gmt":"1996-06-11T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2012-04-25T20:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:20:39","slug":"dinner-with-william-browning-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with William Browning Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Dinner with William Browning Spencer<\/h3>\n<p>We had so much fun with <em>Resume with Monsters<\/em> that we took the             author,  Bill Spencer, out to dinner.  Eight of us met Bill at Senor             O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s, where we devoured  their delicious nachos. We             learned a lot of secrets about <strong>Resume with             Monsters<\/strong>:  &#8220;I wrote it in four months;&#8221; &#8220;If you             think this cover was  bad, you should have seen the             first one;&#8221; &#8220;My editor had  never heard of Lovecraft or             Cthulhu before he read this  book;&#8221; &#8220;My typesetter             friends complained about the kerning  on the cover.&#8221;             Talking to the author about his work was  fascinating;             we&#8217;ll likely invite the next local author whose  book we             discuss (this means you, Brad Denton) to dinner  with             us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;A.. T. Campbell, III<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner with William Browning Spencer We had so much fun with Resume with Monsters that we took the author, Bill Spencer, out to dinner. Eight of us met Bill at Senor O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s, where we devoured their delicious nachos. We learned a lot of secrets about Resume with Monsters: &#8220;I wrote it in four months;&#8221; &#8220;If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}