{"id":860,"date":"2010-01-29T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/29\/friday-flash-fiction-telling-tales-out-of-school\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T19:47:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-telling-tales-out-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/29\/friday-flash-fiction-telling-tales-out-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Telling Tales Out of School&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I blame <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B002N1AEWS\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Robot Chicken<\/span><\/a> for a lot of things, not the least of which is a tendency to say &#8220;What a twist!&#8221;&#8211;in a high-pitched voice, pronouncing the last word as <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">tweest<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You know what?  It&#8217;ll be faster if you just watch the video:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/i.adultswim.com\/adultswim\/video2\/tools\/swf\/viralplayer.swf\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.adultswim.com\/adultswim\/video2\/tools\/swf\/viralplayer.swf\"\/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"id=0b171081bd005483af1975263000905f\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.adultswim.com\/adultswim\/video2\/tools\/swf\/viralplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" FlashVars=\"id=0b171081bd005483af1975263000905f\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I know, it still doesn&#8217;t make any sense.  That is the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">insidious nature<\/span> of this program.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.70\">&#8220;Telling Tales Out of School&#8221;<\/a> at <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">512 Words or Fewer<\/span><\/span><\/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 blame Robot Chicken for a lot of things, not the least of which is a tendency to say &#8220;What a twist!&#8221;&#8211;in a high-pitched voice, pronouncing the last word as tweest&#8230; You know what? It&#8217;ll be faster if you just&#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":[38,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-tv","category-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}