{"id":1075,"date":"2009-01-09T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/09\/friday-flash-fiction-bachelor-of-science\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:02:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-bachelor-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/01\/09\/friday-flash-fiction-bachelor-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Bachelor of Science&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not my best story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/bachelor-of-science.html\">&#8220;Bachelor of Science&#8221; at <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">512 Words or Fewer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>D didn&#8217;t like the ending, and Loren liked <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/damn-it-feels-good-to-be-gangsta.html\">the original opening<\/a> better.  I wrote those three paragraphs last year sometime, and sat on them because I didn&#8217;t know where to take the story next.  Giving myself a deadline this week forced me to just pick something and go with it, but as usual, my idea was too big for 512 words.  I might try expanding it later, or using it for a spec <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Heroes<\/span> script.  I mean, it can&#8217;t be any worse than the shit they&#8217;ve been shoveling this year.*<\/p>\n<p>If you have six minutes to spare, <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/audio-bachelor-of-science.html\">listen to the podcast<\/a> too.  My recording&#8217;s a little fuzzy due to computer troubles, but I really like the intro\/outro music I found.  Hooray for Creative Commons!<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n<p>* Baby, you got to be cruel to be kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my best story: &#8220;Bachelor of Science&#8221; at 512 Words or Fewer D didn&#8217;t like the ending, and Loren liked the original opening better. I wrote those three paragraphs last year sometime, and sat on them because I didn&#8217;t know&#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":[38,43,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-music","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}