{"id":717,"date":"2010-09-24T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/09\/24\/friday-flash-fiction-death-trap\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T20:12:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-death-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/09\/24\/friday-flash-fiction-death-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Death Trap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Well, Dad, I&#8217;ve got good news and bad news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good news is, we were able to save your life, despite your mortal injuries, by putting your brain in a jar and connecting you to The Matrix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bad news is, The Matrix sucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.104\">&#8220;Death Trap&#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>&#8220;Well, Dad, I&#8217;ve got good news and bad news. &#8220;The good news is, we were able to save your life, despite your mortal injuries, by putting your brain in a jar and connecting you to The Matrix. &#8220;The bad news&#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-717","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\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}