{"id":1024,"date":"2009-03-27T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/03\/27\/friday-flash-fiction-true-story\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:45:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/03\/27\/friday-flash-fiction-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;True Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, I finished writing, recording, and scheduling a completely different short story for this week&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">512 Words<\/span>.  I was pretty happy with it.  But you&#8217;re not going to see it today.  Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because, on Wednesday, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7963581.stm\">this BBC News article<\/a>, which reminded me of another story I&#8217;d written seven years ago.  When I dug up the manuscript and saw that it was only 650 words long, I knew what I had to do.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, &#8220;True Story&#8221; is the original title.  I considered changing it to avoid any confusion, but it&#8217;s just too perfect.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.26\">&#8220;True Story&#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>On Monday, I finished writing, recording, and scheduling a completely different short story for this week&#8217;s 512 Words. I was pretty happy with it. But you&#8217;re not going to see it today. Why? Because, on Wednesday, I came across this&#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-1024","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\/1024","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=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}