{"id":11861,"date":"2014-08-06T03:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com?p=11861&#038;preview_id=11861"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:25","slug":"bullshot-darrin-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-darrin-doyle\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Darrin Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PW<\/strong>: \u201cHead\u201d is a story where a character\u2019s head becomes \u201cnonviable.\u201d Tell us, what inspired this bizarre, humorous, and horrifying story?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DD<\/strong>: A few years ago when I was living in Ohio, I bought a book called <i>Ohio Oddities<\/i> that had weird, offbeat news items from the state over the past century.\u00a0 I was repulsed and fascinated by a particular story about a farmer who wanted to cook one of his chickens for dinner.\u00a0 As was customary, he chopped off its head.\u00a0 The chicken, however, didn\u2019t die.\u00a0 It remained alive without its head.\u00a0 The farmer and his wife took pity on the headless bird and fed it bits of apple, using a toothpick to jam the food down its neck hole.\u00a0 The chicken lived for a month or so without its head.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure this story lodged itself in my brain, and years later was part of the inspiration for \u201cHead.\u201d\u00a0 Some part of me probably wondered, \u201cWhat the heck would it even mean to be alive without a head?\u201d\u00a0 There\u2019s also great potential for allegory in putting this type of situation into the world of fiction.\u00a0 I made a point to include a reference to this insanely determined chicken in the story itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;Head&#8221; on what inspired his story<\/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":[870,342],"class_list":["post-11861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-story-inspiration","tag-writing","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861","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=11861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11861\/revisions\/11862"}],"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=11861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}