{"id":519,"date":"2011-08-19T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-flash-fiction-to-cruise-or-not-to-cruise\/"},"modified":"2011-08-19T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:59:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-to-cruise-or-not-to-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-flash-fiction-to-cruise-or-not-to-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;To Cruise Or Not To Cruise&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s story was inspired by: an idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/corbya\">Corby<\/a>, one of my Clarion Write-a-Thon sponsors; <a href=\"http:\/\/jococruisecrazy.com\/\">JoCo Cruise Crazy II<\/a> (about which I am still undecided); my own novel-in-progress, which mostly takes place aboard an Earth-to-Mars cruise spaceship; and one of <a href=\"http:\/\/nella.org\/jra\/\">JRA<\/a>&#8216;s ex-girlfriends.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.151\">&#8220;To Cruise Or Not To Cruise&#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 by: an idea from Corby, one of my Clarion Write-a-Thon sponsors; JoCo Cruise Crazy II (about which I am still undecided); my own novel-in-progress, which mostly takes place aboard an Earth-to-Mars cruise spaceship; and one&#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":[38,65,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-jococruisecrazy","category-writeathon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}