{"id":6088,"date":"2013-02-20T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:34","slug":"bullshot-robert-scotellaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-robert-scotellaro\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Robert Scotellaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>PW: It seems that the narrator of &#8220;Sweet Tooth&#8221; attaches some sentimental value to his father&#8217;s frogs. Are you the sentimental type, or do you focus squarely on the practical value of material?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>RS: I&#8217;m not particularly sentimental. But I think we all have better times (at least perceived, memory-filtered) that we recollect fondly. In the case of the frogs his father handed down to him (ones his mother hid behind a jungle of ferns and his ex banished to a closet), he and his father saw the comedic value in them. These stuffed\u00a0creatures\u00a0played bongos, pool, a tiny red accordion, and rode motorcycles. I imagined he and his father finding them at a flea market when he was young. Seeing them with similar eyes. Connecting in that way. Not viewing them as taxidermy\u2014as real (dead frogs) posed ludicrously, as his ex had. I think it further underscores the divide between the two main characters, and highlights, at least symbolically, a kind of innocence lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;Sweet Tooth&#8221; on sentimentality, and dead frogs<\/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":[247,27,347,346],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-children","tag-fathers","tag-lost-innocence","tag-sentimentality","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","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=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17611,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/17611"}],"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=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}