{"id":862,"date":"2010-01-22T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/22\/friday-flash-fiction-the-kid-who-noticed-things\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T01:47:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-the-kid-who-noticed-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/01\/22\/friday-flash-fiction-the-kid-who-noticed-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;The Kid Who Noticed Things&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s &#8220;story&#8221; (it&#8217;s really just an opening) is a perfect example of deadlines driving creativity:  if I hadn&#8217;t needed to write something by Friday, I might never have dug these pieces out of the trunk and tried to make something out of them.  Now I&#8217;ve got several different story ideas branching out from this scene.  One of them will collapse into an actual, finished piece in a couple of weeks, ready for critique and eventual submission.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.69\">&#8220;The Kid Who Noticed Things&#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>This week&#8217;s &#8220;story&#8221; (it&#8217;s really just an opening) is a perfect example of deadlines driving creativity: if I hadn&#8217;t needed to write something by Friday, I might never have dug these pieces out of the trunk and tried to make&#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-862","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\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}