{"id":361,"date":"2018-09-10T14:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2018-09-10T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:36:42","slug":"in-rod-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"In Rod We Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TwilightZone.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TwilightZone-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TwilightZone-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TwilightZone-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TwilightZone-700x394.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TwilightZone-604x340.jpeg 604w, http:\/\/jackjward.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TwilightZone.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Anyone who has heard me speak of my writing, know I owe a great deal to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rod_Serling\">Rod Serling<\/a>. His <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)\">Twilight Zone<\/a> was a launching platform for my imagination. I would set my alarm for one or two in the morning once a week to see reruns in the early hours. When my black and white television warmed up, and I tried to ignore the mournful sound of howling wind outside my doors, I was captivated. Ever since then, speculative fiction has been my favourite. Great writing about &#8220;who am I&#8221; begins with &#8220;what if&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great resource from <a href=\"https:\/\/gointothestory.blcklst.com\/rod-serling-on-writing-b9654bfd3783\"><strong>Rod Serling on Writing.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Welcome to the Twilight Zone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has heard me speak of my writing, know I owe a great deal to Rod Serling. His Twilight Zone was a launching platform for my imagination. I would set my alarm for one or two in the morning once a week to see reruns in the early hours. When my black and white television warmed up, and I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[136,442],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-rod-serling","tag-twilight-zone"],"wppr_data":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jackjward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}