{"id":729,"date":"2010-07-19T06:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T10:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2010-07-19T06:47:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T10:47:14","slug":"carousel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Carousel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"At night, they come to life and frolick on the beach.\" title=\"At night, they come to life and frolick on the beach.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4122\/4808403468_6de81158d5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always had a fascination with carousels.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say I&#8217;ve always had a fascination with carnivals and fairs and amusement parks.<\/p>\n<p>My first roller coaster was at Rockaway Playland.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t exist anymore.<\/p>\n<p>My most recent roller coaster was the Cyclone.<\/p>\n<p>And while the roller coaster is always exciting, there are two rides to which I find myself inexplicably drawn: the Ferris Wheel, and the Carousel.\u00c2\u00a0 So much so that both played a part in my story, &#8220;The Lead Horse&#8221;, which was published many years ago in a little-seen anthology put out by a no-longer-existing small press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I&#8217;ve always had a fascination with carousels. It&#8217;s safe to say I&#8217;ve always had a fascination with carnivals and fairs and amusement parks. My first <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=729\" title=\"Carousel\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}