{"id":10161,"date":"2011-08-03T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2011-08-04T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T19:53:16","slug":"the-big-five-triple-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/08\/03\/the-big-five-triple-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Five Triple-Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terribleminds\/5766889644\/in\/set-72157606638445017\/lightbox\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3176\/5766889644_00beafe61f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I ended up with 5,000 Twitter followers.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, <em>if you were to ask me<\/em>, I&#8217;d say that following me is a sign of dubious moral standing and, most likely, an indicator of a brain parasite. You might wanna have that checked out by a priest and\/or doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, it is what it is and there you all are and I&#8217;m thankful to have you turning an ear toward my lunatic broadcasting. I appreciate you dialing into my penmonkey frequency.<\/p>\n<p>This feels like a good time to give some shit away.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on the table:<\/p>\n<p>(1) copy of Irregular Creatures in PDF or Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>(1) copy of Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey in PDF or Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>(1) copy of 250 Things You Should Know About Writing in PDF or Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Penmonkey postcard sent to you via Jolly Olde Snail Mail, and on this postcard I will ink a random thought about writing <em>all for you<\/em>. I might also pass out on the postcard and smear it with drool.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here<\/em>, then, is how you get that.<\/p>\n<p>Drop down into the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Write a story using three sentences.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite gets the package.<\/p>\n<p>You have one day &#8212; I&#8217;ll check back here at 2pm EST tomorrow (24 hours from now) and will pick.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you again, awesome humans. You tickle this little inkslinger&#8217;s pink parts.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and write boldly.<\/p>\n<p>[EDIT: See comments for results!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow, I ended up with 5,000 Twitter followers. Frankly, if you were to ask me, I&#8217;d say that following me is a sign of dubious moral standing and, most likely, an indicator of a brain parasite. You might wanna have that checked out by a priest and\/or doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-10161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-terribleminds","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2DT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10167,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}