{"id":799,"date":"2012-08-21T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T09:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-08-21T09:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T09:57:59","slug":"honorable-mention-no-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/honorable-mention-no-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorable Mention No. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s news, the results of the 2nd Quarter of the Writers of the Future contest are out, and I earned my eighth Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n

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\n(Image from the Writers of the Future web site.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nYou can see all the results here<\/a>. I recognized several names from the Codex Writers Group<\/a>, and noted a sizable representation from here in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

According to the contest rules, and as verified to me by the contest director, my forthcoming publications in Analog<\/a> and Asimov’s<\/a> will render me ineligible to enter the contest any more. But because the issue dates on the magazines are October and November, if I get a story submitted by September I’ll have one more shot. So guess what I’ve been working on the last week or so?<\/p>\n

One last thing, while we’re here …<\/p>\n

In space history, 40 years ago today — August 21, 1972 — Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3 (OAO-3)<\/a> was launched by an Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral. It was the “second successful spacecraft to observe the celestial sphere from above the earth’s atmosphere,” and operated until February 1981.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s news, the results of the 2nd Quarter of the Writers of the Future contest are out, and I earned my eighth Honorable Mention. (Image from the Writers of the Future web site.) You can see all the results here. I recognized several names from the Codex Writers Group, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[164,26,11],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-fantasy","tag-launch","tag-space-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}