{"id":788,"date":"2010-05-21T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/05\/21\/friday-flash-fiction-nothing-up-his-sleeve\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T17:11:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-nothing-up-his-sleeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/05\/21\/friday-flash-fiction-nothing-up-his-sleeve\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Nothing Up His Sleeve&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I originally wrote this week&#8217;s story for NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=105660765\">Three-Minute Fiction<\/a> contest.  I didn&#8217;t expect to win, and my expectations were met.  Fully, and then some.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I am still working on internalizing the lessons of Henning Nelm&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lwPxU4XtPgsC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=magic%20showmanship&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><i>Magic and Showmanship<\/i><\/a>.  (Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutewrite.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=6710\">Uncle Jim<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p><b>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.86\">&#8220;Nothing Up His Sleeve&#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>I originally wrote this week&#8217;s story for NPR&#8217;s Three-Minute Fiction contest. I didn&#8217;t expect to win, and my expectations were met. Fully, and then some. FWIW, I am still working on internalizing the lessons of Henning Nelm&#8217;s Magic and Showmanship&#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":[38,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-thisbusinesswecallshow","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}