{"id":407,"date":"2012-06-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-flash-fiction-get-your-ass-to-mars\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:00:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-get-your-ass-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-flash-fiction-get-your-ass-to-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Get Your Ass to Mars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/06\/06\/on-the-passing-of-ray-bradbury-meeting-the-wizard\/\">Ray &#8220;Martian Chronicles&#8221; Bradbury<\/a>, who passed away this week;<\/li>\n<li>Father&#8217;s Day, which happens next Sunday; and<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100802\/\">original<\/a> <i>Total Recall<\/i> (which may have less to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale\">the Philip K. Dick story<\/a> than the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1386703\/\">remake<\/a>, but nonetheless manifests a ridiculous charm all its own).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the record, my father is still alive, and we have both been to the Grand Canyon.  Together, even!<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.193\">&#8220;Get Your Ass to Mars&#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>In honor of: Ray &#8220;Martian Chronicles&#8221; Bradbury, who passed away this week; Father&#8217;s Day, which happens next Sunday; and the original Total Recall (which may have less to do with the Philip K. Dick story than the upcoming remake, but&#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":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-overshare"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}