{"id":957,"date":"2009-07-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/07\/17\/friday-flash-fiction-universal-language\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T07:01:00","slug":"friday-flash-fiction-universal-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/07\/17\/friday-flash-fiction-universal-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Flash Fiction: &#8220;Universal Language&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all my <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">512<\/span>s so far, I believe this one to be the most Scalzi-esque; it would not be unfair to make comparisons between &#8220;Universal Language&#8221; and his <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2008\/04\/16\/a-shareware-short-story-how-i-proposed-to-my-wife-an-alien-sex-story\/\">&#8220;How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story.&#8221;<\/a>  I wouldn&#8217;t say I was directly inspired by that piece, but I definitely had its comedic-yet-sentimental tone in mind when working on this week&#8217;s story.  Like they say, steal from the best.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/512.42\">&#8220;Universal Language&#8221;<\/a> at <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">512 Words or Fewer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all my 512s so far, I believe this one to be the most Scalzi-esque; it would not be unfair to make comparisons between &#8220;Universal Language&#8221; and his &#8220;How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story.&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t&#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-957","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\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}