{"id":1239,"date":"2008-04-24T05:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T05:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2008-04-24T05:55:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T05:55:01","slug":"stories_and_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/stories_and_places\/","title":{"rendered":"stories and places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this new site, <a href=\"http:\/\/217babel.com\/\">217babel.com<\/a>  set up by Brighton based journalist and writer William Shaw, to be  a nice example of an online fiction that actually gets you reading rather than admiring it awhile and then glazing over or clicking away. A clean page, simple navigation and, most importantly, words that hook. Knock on the door and take a look.<br \/>\nLast year Shaw created another inspired piece: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.41places.org\">41 Places<\/a>, a city-wide artwork of 41 true stories, installed in the place where they happened &#8211; stories of people who live, work and play in Brighton, narrative non-fiction miniatures become something between a giant work of art, scattered through the city, and a treasure hunt of stories.  The narratives were collected by Shaw between September 2006 and April 2007 and designed and installed by Richard W\u00f6lfstrome, John Easterby and Tom Snell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this new site, 217babel.com set up by Brighton based journalist and writer William Shaw, to be a nice example of an online fiction that actually gets you reading rather than admiring it awhile and then glazing over or clicking away. A clean page, simple navigation and, most importantly, words that hook. Knock on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[662,1925,1997],"tags":[3023],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-uk","category-web","tag-web-fiction-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}