{"id":682,"date":"2010-10-14T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/14\/friday-flash-fiction-division-of-labour\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T06:28:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-division-of-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/14\/friday-flash-fiction-division-of-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Division of Labour&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I <i>know<\/i> those are rats in the picture, not gerbils.  Have <i>you<\/i> ever tried to find a Creative Commons-licensed photo of two gerbils?<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I could have just changed them to rats in the story, but gerbils seem more exotic.  It&#8217;s the name, I suppose.  GERBIL.  JURR-BULL.  Strange burrowing creatures from Pandora.  Or Arrakis.  Yeah, that&#8217;s the ticket!<\/p>\n<p>I really should go to sleep now.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.107\">&#8220;Division of Labour&#8221;<\/a> at <i>512 Words or Fewer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know those are rats in the picture, not gerbils. Have you ever tried to find a Creative Commons-licensed photo of two gerbils? And yes, I could have just changed them to rats in the story, but gerbils seem&#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":[38,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-geeky"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}