{"id":1002,"date":"2009-04-24T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/24\/friday-flash-fiction-customer-surface\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T07:50:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-customer-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/24\/friday-flash-fiction-customer-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Customer Surface&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if there was a store like Fry&#8217;s Electronics, only it sold magical implements instead of technological ones?  Would cash-poor aspiring wizards still take advantage of the &#8220;Fry&#8217;s rental plan&#8221; (very lenient 30-day return policy)?  Would dealing with their low-paid, poorly trained employees still be a pain in the ass?  You&#8217;ve got questions.  I&#8217;ve got a short story to answer some of them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.30\">&#8220;Customer Surface&#8221;<\/a> at <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">512 Words or Fewer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if there was a store like Fry&#8217;s Electronics, only it sold magical implements instead of technological ones? Would cash-poor aspiring wizards still take advantage of the &#8220;Fry&#8217;s rental plan&#8221; (very lenient 30-day return policy)? Would dealing with their low-paid,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}