{"id":6728,"date":"2023-11-05T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=6728"},"modified":"2023-11-05T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:37:20","slug":"of-death-deserved-we-will-not-die-by-bennett-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=6728","title":{"rendered":"Of Death Deserved We Will Not Die by Bennett North"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><strong><em>Of Death Deserved We Will Not Die<\/em><\/strong> by Bennett North (<em>Lightspeed <\/em>#162, November 2023) has a narrator who helps his mother make bread outside a city that has closed its gates. Various other snippets of information are presented as the narrator wanders the area gathering supplies\u2014he practises climbing the city walls, there has been a plague and many have been locked outside the city, the narrator\u2019s mother is paid for her bread with \u201cbroken chairs and baby clothes and sacks of bones\u201d, etc. (I got the vague feeling the bones were what they ground down to make the bread).<br>This very short piece never coheres into anything more than a dream fragment.<br>* (Mediocre). 700 words. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/issues\/november-2023-issue-162\/\">Story link<\/a> (available 23<sup>rd<\/sup> November).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Death Deserved We Will Not Die by Bennett North (Lightspeed #162, November 2023) has a narrator who helps his mother make bread outside a city that has closed its gates. Various other snippets of information are presented as the narrator wanders the area gathering supplies\u2014he practises climbing the city walls, there has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":""},"categories":[1582],"tags":[21,1400,1583,659,1584,1022,12],"class_list":["post-6728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bennett-north","tag-21","tag-1400","tag-bennett-north","tag-lightspeed","tag-plague","tag-short-short","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6731,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions\/6731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}