{"id":1988,"date":"2010-07-22T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2023-08-16T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T15:39:11","slug":"generation-eloi-passes-on-the-h-g-wells-story-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Generation Eloi Passes on the H. G. Wells Story Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contest Judge: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentnews.co.uk\/kent-news\/No-entries-for-%C2%A31,000-HG-Wells-story-competition-newsinkent37805.aspx\">Here&#8217;s an H. G. Wells writing contest that will pay you \u00a31,000 if you win.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writers: All right! Sign me up!<\/p>\n<p>Contest Judge: But there&#8217;s a catch.<\/p>\n<p>Writers: What?<\/p>\n<p>Contest Judge: You have to write your story out by hand.<\/p>\n<p>Writers: Pass.<\/p>\n<p>No way could I enter this contest; their attempts to judge my entry would no doubt come out something like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VdMdboymT8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: Michael Walsh&#8217;s Facebook feed. The &#8220;Generation Eloi&#8221; tag comes from the afterword to Steven R. Boyett&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/lame.html\"><b>Elegey Beach<\/b><\/a>, which I hope to have a review of sometime in the near future.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contest Judge: Here&#8217;s an H. G. Wells writing contest that will pay you \u00a31,000 if you win. Writers: All right! Sign me up! Contest Judge: But there&#8217;s a catch. Writers: What? Contest Judge: You have to write your story out by hand. Writers: Pass. No way could I enter this contest; their attempts to judge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[520,521,510,519,518,117],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-elegy-beach","tag-generation-eloi","tag-h-g-wells","tag-steven-r-boyett","tag-woody-allen","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22496,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}