{"id":41,"date":"2007-07-01T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/41"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T15:34:03","slug":"something-worth-fighting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/41","title":{"rendered":"Something Worth Fighting For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurray!  I published a story.  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontporchjournal.com\/issue30_fiction_something.asp\">Something Worth Fighting For<\/a>&#8221; has appeared in the summer 2007 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontporchjournal.com\/\">Front Porch Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first story I put up for workshop at Iowa.  I returned to it very slowly.  Advice can be difficult.<\/p>\n<p><b>Something Worth Fighting For<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Did you ever kill anyone?&#8221; she asked. Then reconsidered. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, never mind.&#8221; She bit her glossy lip. &#8220;It&#8217;s just, I&#8217;m really interested, because it&#8217;s really interesting.&#8221; Her eyebrows arced high, and her dainty earrings dangled as she spoke.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The young man twisted on his stool, as if working out a kink in his spine. It was dark, inside and out. The bar was nearly empty. The happy couples had long since left. Only a few desperate patrons still lingered.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She said something else. And then something else.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The young man nodded. She prattled on about the virtues of dissent, hooking and jabbing at him like a boxer, all the while keeping her dukes up, leaving no opening to exploit. He sat with polo shirt tucked into constricting wrinkle-free slacks.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When he&#8217;d returned from the war a couple months ago, he learned two things: That his girlfriend whom he told not to wait for him, in fact, didn&#8217;t, and that life was very easy &#8212; mostly. The important things were easy. Going for a walk, for example. Eating. Sleeping.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontporchjournal.com\/issue30_fiction_something.asp\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurray! I published a story. &#8220;Something Worth Fighting For&#8221; has appeared in the summer 2007 issue of Front Porch Journal. This is the first story I put up for workshop at Iowa. I returned to it very slowly. Advice can be difficult. Something Worth Fighting For &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Did you ever kill anyone?&#8221; she asked. Then reconsidered. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/41\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[47],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}