{"id":1746,"date":"2017-03-05T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T17:48:17","slug":"the-sun-never-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Never Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SunNever.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SunNever-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"SunNever\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SunNever-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/SunNever.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a fun little tale all about nationalism, sports, and Oscar Wilde.<\/p>\n<p>Huge thank you to Columbus actor supreme\u00a0Christina Yoho, who not only knocked the voices out of the park but also started this rolling by asking me to write a story that had chewing sounds. (Apparently, they&#8217;re fun to do as an actor.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually analyze my writing, but I saw a bit of our current political climate in this one. See if you can spot it. There&#8217;s a free book in it for you if you explain it in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>This is also my first (inadvertent) success at passing the Bechdel test. It really isn&#8217;t hard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9037\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1746-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Sun-Never-sets_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Sun-Never-sets_mixdown.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Sun-Never-sets_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Sun-Never-sets_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1746-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Sun-Never-sets_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The-Sun-Never-sets_mixdown.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun little tale all about nationalism, sports, and Oscar Wilde. Huge thank you to Columbus actor supreme\u00a0Christina Yoho, who not only knocked the voices out of the park but also started this rolling by asking me to write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1746\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,69,14],"tags":[430,427,429,428],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-giveaways","category-original-craft-productions","tag-british-imperialism","tag-christina-yoho","tag-cricket","tag-oscar-wilde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}