{"id":11161,"date":"2014-01-29T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:53","slug":"bullshot-scott-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-scott-gould\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Scott Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PW<\/strong>: In <a href=\"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/product\/bull-3\/\">The Prince<\/a>, our narrator and his pal Brian dispense phrase upon colorful phrase, one of which is\u2014\u201cDoes a shark have a watertight asshole?\u201d What\u2019s the geographic range of that gem?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SG<\/strong>: Okay, the geographic range of the shark asshole line\u2026 I\u2019m not sure what you mean, exactly. The shark\u2019s geography? Because, I mean, those things never stop swimming, right? Or do you mean how far the line traveled before it got to me? That one I can answer.<\/p>\n<p>See, that line is, of course, first cousins with the whole family of captain-obvious-affirmations like: Does the Pope wear a funny hat? Or, does a fat baby fart? This particular line is, I think, a play on the traditional \u201cDoes a frog have a watertight ass?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact of the matter is, this particular line hails from South Georgia because I stole it from my friend, Stephen P. Parrott, who is from Hahira, Georgia. We roomed together for a couple of years in college, and he arrived at school his freshman year loaded with lines like that. But he was a biology major with no plans to be a writer, so I felt it was my duty to follow him around and steal all the good stuff he said. Which has, this many years later, led me to the conclusion that I am a mediocre writer but one helluva thief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;The Prince&#8221; shares the resource for where he gets some of his writing material<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115,758],"class_list":["post-11161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-growing-up","tag-quips","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11597,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions\/11597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}