{"id":1159,"date":"2025-01-22T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:37:12","slug":"publication-the-keeper-of-numbers-appears-in-j-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/publication-the-keeper-of-numbers-appears-in-j-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication &#8211; &#8220;The Keeper of Numbers&#8221; appears in J Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Keeper-of-Numbers.webp?resize=1024%2C678&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1160\" style=\"width:594px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Keeper-of-Numbers.webp?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Keeper-of-Numbers.webp?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Keeper-of-Numbers.webp?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Keeper-of-Numbers.webp?resize=1320%2C874&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Keeper-of-Numbers.webp?w=1480&amp;ssl=1 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Piero&#8217;s short story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jjournal.org\/post\/the-keeper-of-numbers\">&#8220;The Keeper of Numbers,&#8221;<\/a> appeared in <em>J Journal: New Writing on Justice<\/em>, a publication of CUNY&#8217;s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In a story the editors described as &#8220;poor Gregor Samsa meeting Dostoevsky&#8217;s underground man,&#8221; a college employee who reconciles dining receipts and reads philosophy in his spare time decides to record all of his thoughts before he dies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jjournal.org\/post\/the-keeper-of-numbers\">Read &#8220;The Keeper of Numbers&#8221; open access here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Piero&#8217;s short story, &#8220;The Keeper of Numbers,&#8221; appeared in J Journal: New Writing on Justice, a publication of CUNY&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160,"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-1159","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\/Keeper-of-Numbers.webp?fit=1480%2C980&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","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=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}