{"id":1401,"date":"2014-12-03T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T08:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2014-12-02T20:19:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:19:38","slug":"words-of-love-production-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"(Words of Love) Production Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first read this story a looooong time ago. I don\u2019t even recall how long ago, but it\u2019s entirely possible it was near the date of original publication. It stuck with me. It was one of the first stories I read that eschewed good-vs-evil in favor of \u201calmost no one is evil, almost everything is broken.\u201d I figured if the story had enough lasting power that I still occasionally thought of it, I could certainly podcast it here, and the incredibly generous Mark Rudolph was ok with me doing so. If you want to check out his other work, he has another story<\/a>\u00a0and a poem<\/a> at Strange Horizons as well.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m kinda surprised I was able to find \u201cWords of Love\u201d actually. Not until recently have I started to retain the names of stories, novels, and authors. I grew up with a library card, and thus my reading materials were impermanent. They always disappeared when I was done. I didn\u2019t have many friends as a child, so I didn\u2019t have anyone to discuss the stories with and so no reason to be able to identify them with short labels such as Title or Author. If a related topic ever came up in conversation I\u2019d simply describe a story\u2019s plot or premise. I never realized what a disservice this was to the author, and never changed that habit. It wasn\u2019t until I joined a book club a few years ago that I actually started to pay attention to such things as \u201cTitle\u201d or \u201cAuthor\u201d and now I wish I\u2019d been doing it all along.<\/p>\n

Finding \u201cWords of Love\u201d was a process that came and went in fits and starts over a number of years, with much Googling and brain-wracking. I\u2019m still surprised it happened. From vague memories of a plot and a world, to a direct link to the original publication is quite a feat, and one I haven\u2019t been able to replicate often. The internet rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first read this story a looooong time ago. I don\u2019t even recall how long ago, but it\u2019s entirely possible it was near the date of original publication. It stuck with me. It was one of the first stories I read that eschewed good-vs-evil in favor of \u201calmost no one\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}