{"id":1016,"date":"2009-04-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/03\/friday-flash-fiction-the-incredible-machine\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T16:00:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-the-incredible-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/03\/friday-flash-fiction-the-incredible-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;The Incredible Machine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, I&#8217;m using the first sense of &#8216;incredible,&#8217; <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">i.e.<\/span>: &#8220;So implausible as to elicit disbelief.&#8221;  I hope, however, that you are willing to suspend disbelief for the five paltry minutes it will take to enjoy this week&#8217;s tall tale.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.27\">&#8220;The Incredible Machine&#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>In this case, I&#8217;m using the first sense of &#8216;incredible,&#8217; i.e.: &#8220;So implausible as to elicit disbelief.&#8221; I hope, however, that you are willing to suspend disbelief for the five paltry minutes it will take to enjoy this week&#8217;s tall&#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-1016","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\/1016","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=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}