{"id":6842,"date":"2013-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:18","slug":"bullshot-eric-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-eric-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Eric Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>PW<\/strong>: How did you manage to write so beautifully about soldering pipe<span>?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>EF: <\/strong><span>My spouse and I bought our first house on graduate student stipends.\u00a0 It was an old house that had been pieced together with construction scraps and all the plumbing was copper.\u00a0 We were broke so a friend showed us how to do it, how to burnish the ends of pipe with emery cloth until they glinted like new pennies.\u00a0 The first day we worked on it, I just watched him fit the pieces together like he was building with Lego or some house-sized erector set.\u00a0 He was that enthralled with it.<\/span> In &#8220;The Invisible Invisible Man,&#8221; <span>I wanted to convey the simple joy of seeing things come together and the frustration when <\/span>they didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of\u00a0 this week&#8217;s &#8220;The Invisible Invisible Man&#8221; on the\u00a0joys and frustrations of soldering copper pipe<\/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":[369,368,370,366,367,365,72],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-frustrations","tag-graduate-school","tag-joy","tag-renovations","tag-repairs","tag-toys","tag-wives","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842","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=6842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17586,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions\/17586"}],"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=6842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}