{"id":1067,"date":"2023-04-08T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2025-01-16T20:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:50:40","slug":"short-story-the-pearl-published-in-oak-tree-journals-inaugural-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/short-story-the-pearl-published-in-oak-tree-journals-inaugural-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Story &#8211; \u201cThe Pearl\u201d published in Oak Tree Journal&#8217;s inaugural issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/oak-tree-logo.png?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1068\" style=\"width:288px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/oak-tree-logo.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/oak-tree-logo.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/oak-tree-logo.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Piero&#8217;s short story, &#8220;The Pearl,&#8221; appeared in <em>Oak Tree Journal<\/em>&#8216;s inaugural issue as the faculty spotlight feature in this community college-run literary journal. Special thanks to the Oak Tree Journal staff and their faculty advisor, Ralph Pennel, for inviting me and publishing &#8220;The Pearl&#8221;! Check out the excellent issue below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oaktreejournal.com\/issues\/\">&#8220;The Pearl&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; <em>Oak Tree Journal<\/em>, 1.1, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Piero&#8217;s short story, &#8220;The Pearl,&#8221; appeared in Oak Tree Journal&#8216;s inaugural issue as the faculty spotlight feature in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication-fiction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/oak-tree-logo.png?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}