{"id":311,"date":"2009-03-18T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T23:16:55","slug":"lateral-thinking-instance-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/lateral-thinking-instance-215\/","title":{"rendered":"Lateral Thinking Instance #215"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"scrippet\">\n<p class=\"sceneheader\">EXT. BACKYARD &#8211; SOMETIME LAST YEAR<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">THE GODDESS and our WRITER look at the fence separating the backyard from THE CHICKENS&#8217; MEADOW.  Even though the gate to the meadow is closed, The Chickens are on the wrong side of the fence, and are buck-bucking through The Goddess&#8217; GARDEN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Either I increase the height of the fence or&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">The Writer considers the fence:  it&#8217;s about waist-high.  A height he can no longer consider vaulting at his age and weight, but a height that is obviously no obstacle to the fowl nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">WRITER<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Or?<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Or I&#8217;m going to have to clip some wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">He looks at Her, knowing how loathe She is to tamper with nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">WRITER<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">You could glue some broken glass and bent nails along the top of the fence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">She looks at him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">Off Her look, he goes inside the house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nSometimes a little lateral thinking just isn&#8217;t welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXT. BACKYARD &#8211; SOMETIME LAST YEAR THE GODDESS and our WRITER look at the fence separating the backyard from THE CHICKENS&#8217; MEADOW. Even though the gate to the meadow is closed, The Chickens are on the wrong side of the fence, and are buck-bucking through The Goddess&#8217; GARDEN. THE GODDESS Either I increase the height &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/lateral-thinking-instance-215\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lateral Thinking Instance #215&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-chickens"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}