{"id":1963,"date":"2003-08-10T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2003-08-10T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/jim-giraffes-stories\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T22:26:05","slug":"jim-giraffes-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/jim-giraffes-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Giraffe&#8217;s Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Giraffe &#038; Daren King.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim has written some stories. He writes well, for a heathen. You can read some of his better efforts below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FIRST STORY<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the first story Jim ever wrote, when I&#8217;d just bought him the hoofwriter. He was having trouble working it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>asaasd<br \/>\nsadfffffffffffffffffffffffff<br \/>\nscsdcvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvfssh<br \/>\nbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedr beer<\/p>\n<p>A DAY AT THE ZOO<\/p>\n<p><em>This next one is Jim&#8217;s favourite. I&#8217;m not so keen. In my opinion, it lacks warmth.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>One day Jim and Daren went to the zoo. They saw some animals. The animals were in cages. Jim had a milkshake. Then, some dancing girls came along and gave Jim a kiss. Then, Daren started crying. I don&#8217;t like him. He is rubbish. <\/p>\n<p>THE PUB<\/p>\n<p><em>There is a lot to be said for freedom of expression. However, there is a fine line between being creative and being an ignoramus, and this story crosses it. Jim, I am not happy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jim and Daren King and Alistair Canister went to the pub. Daren and Alistair didn&#8217;t have any money so Jim bought the drinks. Jim had a pint of beer and Daren had shandy. Alistair wanted oil but they didn&#8217;t have any so he had water. Then, Opinion Onion came in. <\/p>\n<p>Jim said, &#8220;What do you want to drink?&#8221; and he said he wanted a dry white wine. He wanted crisps so Jim bought him cheese &#038; onion and he got cross. <\/p>\n<p>Then, Jim bought drinks for everyone in the whole pub. Everyone likes him. He is really nice. <\/p>\n<p>Then, some dancing girls came in. Jim bought them a bottle of champagne and they said they liked him and gave him their phone number. <\/p>\n<p>Then Daren got killed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darenking.co.uk\/\">Daren King<\/a> was born in Harlow, Essex.  His debut novel, <em>Boxy an Star<\/em>, was shortlisted for the <em>Guardian<\/em> First Book Award.  He has written two other novels for adults, <em>Tom Boler<\/em> and <em>Jim Giraffe<\/em>, and written and illustrated an adult cartoon book, <em>Smally&#8217;s Party<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim and Daren King and Alistair Canister went to the pub. Daren and Alistair didn&#8217;t have any money so Jim bought the drinks. Jim had a pint of beer and Daren had shandy. Alistair wanted oil but they didn&#8217;t have any so he had water. Then, Opinion Onion came in. <\/p>\n<p>\nBy <b>Daren King<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}