{"id":536,"date":"2018-05-25T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T10:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/?p=536"},"modified":"2018-05-25T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T11:10:40","slug":"horse-destroys-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/2018\/05\/25\/horse-destroys-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Destroys the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TTJI4MzLW30\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have written a book. It&#8217;s about a horse who destroys the universe. You may well be wondering why, and why. Let me see if I can explain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unbound.com\/books\/horse-destroys-the-universe\/\">unbound.com\/books\/horse-destroys-the-universe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2015 I decided to have a go at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> challenge, to write a novel in a month. I didn&#8217;t expect anyone would ever read it, I just enjoy writing and telling stories, so I deliberately chose the most outlandish subject I could think of, which happened to be a horse destroying the universe. The task was to somehow construct a semi-believable sequence of events that would end up with such a scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The story is told from the perspective of Buttercup the horse, who is the unwitting participant in an experiment being conducted by a dysfunctional pair of human scientists. As the weeks of writing progressed and the chaos of the story escalated, I began to realise that there was a lot more going on here than a horse destroying the universe. The fact is, you need so many things to go wrong in order to obtain such a result that the journey of this horse and it&#8217;s two hapless human accomplices became far more interesting than the destination.<\/p>\n<p>So, with this rough sketch of a novel complete after a month, I decided to spend some time hammering it into the shape of a proper book. And two and a half years later here I am, <a href=\"https:\/\/unbound.com\/books\/horse-destroys-the-universe\/\">crowd-funding<\/a> to get it published. Will it reach the funding goal? We shall see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written a book. It&#8217;s about a horse who destroys the universe. You may well be wondering why, and why. Let me see if I can explain&#8230; unbound.com\/books\/horse-destroys-the-universe Back in 2015 I decided to have a go at the NaNoWriMo challenge, to write a novel in a month. I didn&#8217;t expect anyone would ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyriak.co.uk\/animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}