{"id":579,"date":"2009-11-09T18:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2009-11-09T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:32:56","slug":"an-argument-for-friendship-tor-com-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/an-argument-for-friendship-tor-com-post\/","title":{"rendered":"An Argument for Friendship (Tor.com post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My novel, <i>Give Up the Ghost<\/i>, has a set-up that might feel familiar to fans of paranormal fiction. There\u2019s a main character with supernatural ties. There\u2019s a character of the opposite sex who enters her life and shakes it up. You know where this is going, right?<\/p>\n<p>If you guessed that they end up in a heated romance, you would actually be wrong. But I wouldn\u2019t blame you for assuming that. Before I even started writing the book, I knew a romance would be the expected outcome. It was very deliberate that I chose not to meet that expectation.<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=+1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=58252\">Click to find out my reasons, and why I&#8217;d like to see more friendship of all sorts in fiction.<\/a><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Comment here or there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My novel, Give Up the Ghost, has a set-up that might feel familiar to fans of paranormal fiction. There\u2019s a main character with supernatural ties. There\u2019s a character of the opposite sex who enters her life and shakes it up. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/an-argument-for-friendship-tor-com-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}