{"id":336,"date":"2016-07-11T07:52:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=336"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:02:07","slug":"the-bet-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/the-bet-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bet VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you don&#8217;t know the history of the Bet, I recommend catching up on these posts <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/the-bet-our-five-year-anniversary\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/the-bet-part-iv-fresh-blood\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/bettin-on-the-ponies-or-la-bet-trois\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/the-bet-part-deux\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/the-bet\/\">here<\/a>. These links will also take you to all other stories from the past that were written to satisfy the Bet.<\/p>\n<p>Short version: I lost a Bet and had to write a short story based on a title given to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberlypauley.com\/\">Kimberly Pauley<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0This year, the title provided to me was &#8220;The Walking Cage.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Walking-Cage-071116.pdf\">Here <\/a>is the story I wrote.<\/p>\n<p>I need to up my game. I&#8217;m tired of losing the Bet. Next year will be my year. MARK MY WORDS WELL.<\/p>\n<p>I will link to the story that Kimberly wrote (with a title provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherineryanhyde.com\/\">Catherine Ryan Hyde<\/a>) once she posts it.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Kimberly&#8217;s free story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberlypauley.com\/the-bet-free-short-stories\/a-slight-exaggeration\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you don&#8217;t know the history of the Bet, I recommend catching up on these posts here, here, here, here, and here. These links will also take you to all other stories from the past that were written to satisfy the Bet. Short version: I lost a Bet and had to write a short [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}