{"id":503,"date":"2011-09-23T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/09\/23\/friday-flash-fiction-unintended-consequences\/"},"modified":"2011-09-23T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:23:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/09\/23\/friday-flash-fiction-unintended-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Unintended Consequences&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s story includes a character name suggestion from Write-a-Thon sponsor Matt, and was inspired in part by (in no particular order) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0061234001\/curtiscchensfree\"><i>Freakonomics<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=037570051X\/curtiscchensfree\"><i>Exegesis<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0015NORDW\/curtiscchensfree\"><i>WarGames<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/codejam\/\">Google Code Jam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Asimov%27s_Robot_Series\">Asimov&#8217;s robot stories<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2007\/05\/how-to-launch-an-executive-email-carpet-bomb.html\">The Consumerist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.156\">&#8220;Unintended Consequences&#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 includes a character name suggestion from Write-a-Thon sponsor Matt, and was inspired in part by (in no particular order) Freakonomics, Exegesis, WarGames, Google Code Jam, Asimov&#8217;s robot stories, and The Consumerist. Read &#8220;Unintended Consequences&#8221; at 512 Words&#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":[38,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-writeathon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}