{"id":8467,"date":"2010-10-06T07:14:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8467"},"modified":"2010-10-05T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T13:38:39","slug":"october-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8467","title":{"rendered":"October Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/octoberleaves-150x126.jpg\" alt=\"October Leaves\" title=\"October Leaves\" width=\"150\" height=\"126\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Science fiction author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelswanwick.com\/\">Michael Swanwick<\/a> wrote a short story last fall, one word at a time, on autumn leaves.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I photographed the leaves where I found them &#8212; in parks and cemeteries and city streets &#8212; and then left them where they lay, possibly to be found by puzzled passers-by. To indicate paragraph breaks, I used photos of gravestones from historic Laurel Hill Cemetery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story is available for free in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/54366973@N04\/5035946705\/\">Flickr set<\/a>, but if you want a physical copy you can purchase one at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/bookstore\/detail\/1621447\">Blurb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This technique could be used for other things, too; I love the idea of a party invitation or other message being conveyed through photographs of leaves.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction author Michael Swanwick wrote a short story last fall, one word at a time, on autumn leaves. I photographed the leaves where I found them &#8212; in parks and cemeteries and city streets &#8212; and then left them where they lay, possibly to be found by puzzled passers-by. To indicate paragraph breaks, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}