{"id":175017,"date":"2014-12-27T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/27\/i-wrote-the-first-5000-words-of-william-the-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-27T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T17:19:09","slug":"i-wrote-the-first-5000-words-of-william-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/27\/i-wrote-the-first-5000-words-of-william-the-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I wrote the first 5,000 words of William the Antichrist. It had a demon named Crawleigh. He drove a Citroen 2CV, and was ineffectual. Proper demons like Hastur and Ligur loathed him. It had a baby swap. I sent it to a few friends for feedback. Then my graphic novel Sandman happened, and it was almost a year later that the phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s Terry,&rdquo; said Terry. \u201c\u2018Ere. That thing you sent me. Are you doing anything with it?&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Not really.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, I think I know what happens next. Do you want to sell it to me? Or write it together?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Write it together,&rdquo; I said, because I was not stupid, and because that was the nearest I was ever going to get to Michaelangelo phoning to ask if I wanted to paint a ceiling with him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-30512620\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-30512620<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/duod.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">duod<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the first 5,000 words of William the Antichrist. It had a demon named Crawleigh. He drove a Citroen 2CV, and was ineffectual. Proper demons like Hastur and Ligur loathed him. It had a baby swap. I sent it to a few friends for feedback. Then my graphic novel Sandman happened, and it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/12\/27\/i-wrote-the-first-5000-words-of-william-the-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[305,371,2757,4,19132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}