{"id":1979,"date":"2010-12-20T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:19:20","slug":"christmas-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/12\/20\/christmas-count\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/TQ-g7wcLzxI\/AAAAAAAAA4U\/fhS1vDEvMqA\/s1600\/IMG_1339.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_1339.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nIn addition to my <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HenryMeltonContest\">Christmas Contest<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d add a pointer to my most popular Christmas story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HenryMelton.com\/0\/h31.html\">The Christmas Count<\/a>. It has been published and republished in anthologies, but none of those are easy to find right now. But it&#8217;s right here on my rather massive website.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I&#8217;ve been building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HenryMelton.com\/\">www.HenryMelton.com<\/a> for many, many years now, and it&#8217;s been through many changes, but it&#8217;s the most definitive list of my works, and many of the short fiction pieces I&#8217;ve written for the magazines are available to read if you just browse through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HenryMelton.com\/0\/Library.html\">library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to my Christmas Contest, I thought I&#8217;d add a pointer to my most popular Christmas story, The Christmas Count. It has been published and republished in anthologies, but none of those are easy to find right now. But it&#8217;s right here on my rather massive website. BTW, I&#8217;ve been building www.HenryMelton.com for many,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2010\/12\/20\/christmas-count\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Christmas Count<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,183,8],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_1339.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-vV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}