{"id":45646,"date":"2019-03-19T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45646"},"modified":"2019-03-23T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T12:06:27","slug":"writers-who-spy-for-more-than-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/writers-who-spy-for-more-than-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt: Writers Who Spy for More Than Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anais Nin was the <em>Spy in the House of Love<\/em>, but history is full of writers who became actual spies, putting their lives at risk in service to their countries. In an article on <em>CrimeReads<\/em>, writer Charles Cumming takes a look at a number of British writers who were recruited by MI6, including\u00a0Frederick Forsyth (<em>The Day of the Jackal),\u00a0<\/em>Graham Greene (<em>Our Man in Havana),\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Roald Dahl (does he really need an introduction??).<\/p>\n<p>What skills do you possess that could be leveraged in a spy scenario? What other unlikely profession could prove a tempting target for recruiters? What happens next?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crimereads.com\/the-long-strange-history-of-novelists-who-became-spies\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/esOA3o92zxE?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">David Sinclair<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/spy?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anais Nin was the Spy in the House of Love, but history is full of writers who became actual spies, putting their lives at risk in service to their countries. In an article on CrimeReads, writer Charles Cumming takes a look at a number of British writers who were recruited by MI6, including\u00a0Frederick Forsyth (The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[513],"class_list":["post-45646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-what-happens-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46032,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45646\/revisions\/46032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}