{"id":916,"date":"2009-10-23T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/10\/23\/friday-flash-fiction-why-you-watch\/"},"modified":"2009-10-23T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:13:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-why-you-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/10\/23\/friday-flash-fiction-why-you-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Why You Watch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I said to myself: &#8220;On second thought, maybe <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Dollhouse<\/span> doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/512words.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/dollhouse-sucks.html\">suck<\/a> so much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.televisionwithoutpity.com\/show\/dollhouse\/vows_1.php\">after all<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.televisionwithoutpity.com\/show\/dollhouse\/instinct_a.php\">&#8220;Instinct&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.televisionwithoutpity.com\/show\/dollhouse\/belle_chose_a.php\">&#8220;Belle Chose,&#8221;<\/a> and I said, &#8220;I was right.  It doesn&#8217;t suck <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">so<\/span> much.  It sucks <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">even worse<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>YMMV.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.56\">&#8220;Why You Watch&#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>A few weeks ago, I said to myself: &#8220;On second thought, maybe Dollhouse doesn&#8217;t suck so much after all.&#8221; And then I watched &#8220;Instinct&#8221; and &#8220;Belle Chose,&#8221; and I said, &#8220;I was right. It doesn&#8217;t suck so much. It sucks&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-512words","category-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}