{"id":1044,"date":"2009-02-27T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/02\/27\/friday-flash-fiction-the-more-things-change\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:06:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/02\/27\/friday-flash-fiction-the-more-things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;The More Things Change&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time travel is always tricky, as everyone on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Lost<\/span> now knows.  But if it&#8217;s possible, we&#8217;re going to figure it out by using science and technology like Daniel Faraday, not with mystical bullshit like, well, every other <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/lost-you-uncurious-motherfckers.html\">uncurious motherfucker<\/a> on the show.<\/p>\n<p>And nobody ever talks about the bureaucracy that would surely grow like weeds around something as potentially volatile as time machines (depending, of course, on whether you believe in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Many-worlds_interpretation\">many-worlds interpretation<\/a> or the immutable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/26\/podcast-of-ted-chian.html\">alchemist&#8217;s gate<\/a>).  Well, nobody except Connie Willis.  I love Connie Willis.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.22\">&#8220;The More Things Change&#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>Time travel is always tricky, as everyone on Lost now knows. But if it&#8217;s possible, we&#8217;re going to figure it out by using science and technology like Daniel Faraday, not with mystical bullshit like, well, every other uncurious motherfucker on&#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-1044","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\/1044","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=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}