{"id":10715,"date":"2011-09-09T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=10715"},"modified":"2011-09-08T13:47:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:47:27","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/09\/09\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: &#8220;The Torch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/5128850888_d1c7e85cd0_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/5128850888_d1c7e85cd0_z.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Uhh, holy shit. Last week&#8217;s 100-word-story contest had over 100 entries&#8230;! <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/09\/02\/flash-fiction-challenge-100-words-on-the-subject-of-revenge\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/09\/02\/flash-fiction-challenge-100-words-on-the-subject-of-revenge\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Go check out the entries<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. I&#8217;ll pick a winner by the end of this weekend. Keep your grapes peeled.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See that photo?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s your challenge. Take a good long look. Think about what you see. And leaping forth from the flames you will find a story inspired by that photo. Whatever story it is, whatever genre you find it in, write it.<\/p>\n<p>Let that image be your narrative guide.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Post it online at your blog.<\/p>\n<p>Then link back here.<\/p>\n<p>Then drop a comment below and point us to your story.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all you gotta do.<\/p>\n<p>One week to write it. By Friday, September 16th, noon EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the week. Friday rolls around, you know what that brings with it, don&#8217;t you? A Friday flash fiction extravabonanza. This week&#8217;s topic is: write 1000 words based on the fiery torchlit image within. Go forth and tell us a story.<\/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":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-10715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2MP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715","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=10715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}