{"id":471,"date":"2011-12-23T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/23\/friday-flash-fiction-meet-suit\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T18:01:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-meet-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/23\/friday-flash-fiction-meet-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Meet Suit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s piece is a first-draft excerpt from a longer story which began with <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/unanswered-questions.html\">&#8220;Unanswered Questions.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current draft of Lirrina&#8217;s speech in that story is much shorter, because she&#8217;s only a minor character.  I might use a version of this spiel somewhere else, though.  Because I&#8217;m <i>probably<\/i> going to write another police procedural at some point.  <i>Maybe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And yes, the title is a pun on <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MeetCute\">&#8220;meet cute.&#8221;<\/a>  Sue me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.169\">&#8220;Meet Suit&#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 week&#8217;s piece is a first-draft excerpt from a longer story which began with &#8220;Unanswered Questions.&#8221; The current draft of Lirrina&#8217;s speech in that story is much shorter, because she&#8217;s only a minor character. I might use a version of&#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":[38,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-thisbusinesswecallshow"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}