{"id":13984,"date":"2025-07-12T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2025-07-12T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:30:49","slug":"miami-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13984","title":{"rendered":"Miami Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Miami-Red-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Miami-Red-Cover-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Miami-Red-Cover-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Miami-Red-Cover-940x1024.jpg 940w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Miami-Red-Cover-768x837.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Miami-Red-Cover.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wrote Miami Red for the Vice Noir anthology.  It was not accepted, but I loved writing the story.  It\u2019s a very rare story for me, placed in a time in living memory of both myself and the readers I market to.  That required a lot of research because I wasn\u2019t creating new vehicles, weapons, or locations.  Everything was in a world that people remember, even if it is colored by Ray-Bans, bright suits, neon lights, and synthetic mood music.  So I did the research, I talked to friends, and then I went to town.  Literally.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Captain William Carter, Texas Ranger, fighting a new kind of monster in the neon Miami of 1988.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.substack.com\/p\/miami-red\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Red on Substack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote Miami Red for the Vice Noir anthology. It was not accepted, but I loved writing the story. It\u2019s a very rare story for me, placed in a time in living memory of both myself and the readers I[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=13984\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13986,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions\/13986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}