{"id":27285,"date":"2021-09-21T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27285"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T08:37:05","slug":"my-latest-short-story-the-covid-themed-the-great-mall-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27285","title":{"rendered":"My latest short story: the Covid-themed &#8220;The Great Mall Of China&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A decade or so ago, I decided to try my hand at writing short stories and, over a period of a few years, I completed 31. I recently (self) published these stories in a book titled <strong>&#8220;The Rooms In My Mind&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I prepared the stories for publication, I wondered if I could revive my short story writing endeavours and decided to start with a Covid-themed piece which I&#8217;ve titled <strong>&#8220;The Great Mall Of China&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read my latest short story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Story32\">here<\/a>. Comments are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you like what you read, please consider buying my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Rooms-My-Mind-Collection-Stories\/dp\/B097SN92N9\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2D8MBJ0VIJSG6&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=roger+darlington&amp;qid=1632157670&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=Roger+Darlington%2Caps%2C153&amp;sr=1-2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade or so ago, I decided to try my hand at writing short stories and, over a period of a few years, I completed 31. I recently (self) published these stories in a book titled &#8220;The Rooms In My Mind&#8221;. As I prepared the stories for publication, I wondered if I could revive my [&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-27285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27291,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285\/revisions\/27291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}