{"id":445,"date":"2012-03-02T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/02\/friday-flash-fiction-so-then-i-met-these-aliens\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T21:09:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-so-then-i-met-these-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/02\/friday-flash-fiction-so-then-i-met-these-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;So Then I Met These Aliens&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excerpt from one of my two <a href=\"http:\/\/literature.ucsd.edu\/affiliated-programs\/clarion\/index.html\">Clarion UCSD<\/a> application stories this year, and as soon as they reject me, it&#8217;s going off to <i>Clarkesworld<\/i>.  Whee!<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.179\">&#8220;So Then I Met These Aliens&#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>This is an excerpt from one of my two Clarion UCSD application stories this year, and as soon as they reject me, it&#8217;s going off to Clarkesworld. Whee! Read &#8220;So Then I Met These Aliens&#8221; at 512 Words or Fewer<\/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-445","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\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}