{"id":298,"date":"2013-01-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/18\/friday-flash-fiction-wizard-and-robot\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:00:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-wizard-and-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/18\/friday-flash-fiction-wizard-and-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Wizard and Robot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s story was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/UkD8fCzdJX\/\">this photo<\/a>.  Believe it&#8230; <i>or not!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of science fiction police procedurals, I watched the very promising pilot for <i>Continuum<\/i> this week.  My three main observations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wearable tech is awesomesauce.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0205657\/\">William B. Davis<\/a> looks even creepier now than he did on <i>The X-Files<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/continuumcircle.wordpress.com\/character-bios\/curtis_bio\/\">My alter ego<\/a> is pretty badass.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But enough about that.  Let&#8217;s find out what our two favorite undercover detectives are up to this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.225\">&#8220;Wizard and Robot&#8221;<\/a> at <i>512 Words or Fewer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s story was inspired by this photo. Believe it&#8230; or not! Speaking of science fiction police procedurals, I watched the very promising pilot for Continuum this week. My three main observations: Wearable tech is awesomesauce. William B. Davis looks even&#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":[38,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}