{"id":14782,"date":"2021-07-13T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=14782"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:59:13","slug":"opening-action-stories-with-the-mercy-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/opening-action-stories-with-the-mercy-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Action Stories with the Mercy Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Q&amp;A: Opening Action Stories with the Mercy Scene\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yO2cYzNEOMk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this clip from the Q&#038;A portion of McKee&#8217;s &#8220;The Foundation of Action&#8221; webinar, Robert explains how writers can avoid an anticlimax when placing the Mercy Scene at the beginning of their stories.<\/p>\n<p>Parts 1 and 2 of McKee&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/register\/registration?ee=121\"><strong>ACTION Webinar Series<\/strong><\/a> are now available to stream On Demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert explains how writers can avoid an anticlimax when placing the Mercy Scene at the beginning of their stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14792,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14782\/revisions\/14792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}