{"id":753,"date":"2010-07-22T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/07\/22\/friday-flash-fiction-falling\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T06:48:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/07\/22\/friday-flash-fiction-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Falling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you mash up Ted Chiang&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Story_of_Your_Life\">&#8220;Story of Your Life,&#8221;<\/a> my unpublished short &#8220;Fish Story,&#8221; and &#8220;Space Seed&#8221; (as seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/trekinthepark.com\/\">Trek in the Park<\/a>)?<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" class><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=d36a561349&#038;photo_id=4781117055&#038;flickr_show_info_box=true\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=d36a561349&#038;photo_id=4781117055&#038;flickr_show_info_box=true\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the most relevant scene from the performance in question, but it gives you the flavor of the proceedings.  Anyway.  <i>This<\/i> is what you get:<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.95\">&#8220;Falling&#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>What do you get when you mash up Ted Chiang&#8217;s &#8220;Story of Your Life,&#8221; my unpublished short &#8220;Fish Story,&#8221; and &#8220;Space Seed&#8221; (as seen at Trek in the Park)? That&#8217;s not the most relevant scene from the performance in question,&#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":[38,53,42,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-startrek","category-video","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}