{"id":1671,"date":"2011-05-16T19:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2011-05-16T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:37:24","slug":"choose-your-own-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/choose-your-own-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Own Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/take-this-narrative-diction\/\">mentioned some funny CYOA-like smut<\/a> that has recently issued from the IF community, I&#8217;ll also suggest a less lewd piece of branching narrative, one which allows the reader to make choices early in the text and in the story&#8217;s past: Andrew Plotkin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eblong.com\/zarf\/zweb\/matter\/\"><i>The Matter of the Monster.<\/i><\/a> Perhaps it&#8217;s a case of the folktale wagging the dog &#8211; in any case, it&#8217;s brightly written, cleverly put together, and worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I mentioned some funny CYOA-like smut that has recently issued from the IF community, I&#8217;ll also suggest a less lewd piece of branching narrative, one which allows the reader to make choices early in the text and in the story&#8217;s past: Andrew Plotkin&#8217;s The Matter of the Monster. Perhaps it&#8217;s a case of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/choose-your-own-monster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Choose Your Own Monster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91,27,3],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coya","tag-hypertext","tag-if"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}