{"id":1068,"date":"2009-01-16T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/16\/friday-flash-fiction-the-coronation-will-not-be-televised\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T22:13:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-the-coronation-will-not-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/16\/friday-flash-fiction-the-coronation-will-not-be-televised\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;The Coronation Will Not Be Televised&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">This week&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">512 Words<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/coronation-will-not-be-televised.html\">&#8220;The Coronation Will Not Be Televised&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/audio-coronation-will-not-be-televised.html\">listen to the podcast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/obamania.html\">read the liner notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure various news outlets will make a big deal out of Monday being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlkday.gov\/\">Martin Luther King, Jr. Day<\/a> and Tuesday being the inauguration of America&#8217;s first black President.  That&#8217;s fine.  But we should also not forget that <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/Ricardo_Montalban\">Ricardo Montalban<\/a> passed away earlier this week.  Is it too much to ask for a full week of mourning?  My friend Gene doesn&#8217;t think so:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/genechuang.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/yes-we-khan.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3502\/3199855133_43104c0cf6_o.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s 512 Words: &#8220;The Coronation Will Not Be Televised&#8221; You can also listen to the podcast and read the liner notes. I&#8217;m sure various news outlets will make a big deal out of Monday being Martin Luther King, Jr&#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":[38,13,25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-movies","category-politics","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}