{"id":515,"date":"2011-08-26T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/26\/friday-flash-fiction-act-two-problems\/"},"modified":"2011-08-26T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T16:24:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-act-two-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/26\/friday-flash-fiction-act-two-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Act Two Problems&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a story based on a Write-a-Thon sponsor suggestion, but I don&#8217;t quite have a handle on it yet.  Meanwhile, here&#8217;s another excerpt from &#8220;Somebody&#8217;s Daughter,&#8221; the story which is going to lose the Writers of the Future contest any day now.  This scene may seem like a huge spoiler, but I&#8217;ve actually removed some crucial lines of dialogue.  See if you can guess where they used to go.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.152\">&#8220;Act Two Problems&#8221;<\/a> at <i>512 Words or Fewer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>(Previous excerpts: <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/whos-your-daddy.html\">&#8220;Who&#8217;s Your Daddy?&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/ties-that-bind.html\">&#8220;The Ties That Bind,&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/everybody-loves-lawyers.html\">&#8220;Everybody Loves Lawyers.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/i><\/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>I&#8217;m working on a story based on a Write-a-Thon sponsor suggestion, but I don&#8217;t quite have a handle on it yet. Meanwhile, here&#8217;s another excerpt from &#8220;Somebody&#8217;s Daughter,&#8221; the story which is going to lose the Writers of the Future&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}