{"id":1823,"date":"2008-01-23T20:06:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2008-01-23T20:06:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:06:39","slug":"short_and_sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"Short And Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep thinking that the entire country of Japan inhabits a space-time distortion that puts it 5-10 years ahead of the rest of the planet. It’s a place where novels written on and for the mobile phone<\/a> make it onto the bestseller lists. Here’s how one successful author of mobile phone fiction explains the popularity of the genre:<\/p>\n

They [Japanese twentysomethings] don\u2019t read works by professional writers because their sentences
\nare too difficult to understand, their expressions are intentionally
\nwordy, and the stories are not familiar to them.<\/b><\/p>\n

I don’t see this taking off in the States, mostly because Americans aren’t accustomed to reading anything on their phones longer than “whr u at?”. Maybe the notion of a literary form specifically tailored to electronic devices is an intriguing one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep thinking that the entire country of Japan inhabits a space-time distortion that puts it 5-10 years ahead of the rest of the planet. It’s a place where novels written on and for the mobile phone make it onto the bestseller lists. Here’s how one successful author of mobile phone fiction explains the popularity […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}