Just to let readers know, a couple of Carpetbagger regulars have informed me of some of recent successes that I thought I’d pass on.<\/p>\n
First, Russ Krauss, whom many of you know as “hark” from the comments section, had a terrific short story published<\/a> in the current issue of Peridot Books. Be sure to take a look.<\/p>\n Second, Tom Cleaver<\/a>, another one of my favorite comments-section regulars, wrote a movie called “The Terror Within,” which will be on the Sci-fi Channel<\/a> on Thursday, May 11, at 11pm. Check local listings.<\/p>\n I mention these to congratulate my friends Russ and Tom, and to offer proof that, slowly but surely, the Carpetbagger community is taking over the national media. I’m optimistic that we’ll be benevolent while exercising our power.<\/p>\n And now, back to the news….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just to let readers know, a couple of Carpetbagger regulars have informed me of some of recent successes that I thought I’d pass on. First, Russ Krauss, whom many of you know as “hark” from the comments section, had a terrific short story published in the current issue of Peridot Books. Be sure to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}