{"id":488,"date":"2011-10-28T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/10\/28\/friday-flash-fiction-unanswered-questions\/"},"modified":"2011-10-28T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:28:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-unanswered-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/10\/28\/friday-flash-fiction-unanswered-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Unanswered Questions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s story was inspired in part by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/catherinereitman\">Breakin&#8217; It Down with Catherine Reitman<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/occupy-oakland-did-police-use-flashbangs-and-rubber-bullets-on-protesters\/2011\/10\/26\/gIQAL4pOJM_blog.html\">Occupy Oakland clusterfuck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might not think those two things go together, but they are both Halloween-thematic: Ms. Reitman is the daughter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0718645\/\">the guy who directed <i>Ghostbusters<\/i><\/a>, and what happened in Oakland is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/occupy-oakland-police-brutality-youtube-videos-stay-after-police-demands-to-delete-27191633\/\">pretty damn scary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>ETA:<\/b> DeeAnn points out that I may have also been influenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YKnchLAMuqc\"><i>Cowboy Bebop<\/i><\/a>. She is, as usual, correct.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.161\">&#8220;Unanswered Questions&#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 story was inspired in part by Breakin&#8217; It Down with Catherine Reitman and the Occupy Oakland clusterfuck. You might not think those two things go together, but they are both Halloween-thematic: Ms. Reitman is the daughter of the&#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":[38,60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-iaintfraidofnoghost","category-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}