{"id":129,"date":"2011-01-30T19:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T23:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:53:42","slug":"a-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"A Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote a short story that was set in the Joshua Jones universe created when I wrote my first Mystery novel, <em>Null_Pointer<\/em>. It featured Detective Pait who also makes a cameo in <em>Null_Pointer<\/em>. I&#8217;ve spent some time this weekend tweaking the story and setting it up in epub format. I will be putting it up for sale on Kindle and elsewhere this week.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my basic, no frills cover for it. I may see if I can do better before going online with it. I need to make it clear that it is only a short story and that it is related to <em>Null_Pointer<\/em>. Branding is everything. But barring any unexpected developments, this could be the first title available from Johnny Batch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TheSafecracker_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-130\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"TheSafecracker_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TheSafecracker_cover-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TheSafecracker_cover-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/TheSafecracker_cover.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote a short story that was set in the Joshua Jones universe created when I wrote my first Mystery novel, Null_Pointer. It featured Detective Pait who also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-null_pointer","category-short-stories","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}