{"id":11493,"date":"2011-11-04T06:22:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2011-11-04T06:22:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T10:22:55","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-corporate-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/11\/04\/flash-fiction-challenge-corporate-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: &#8220;Corporate Abuse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last week&#8217;s worldbuilding challenge &#8211;&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"THE GODS OF BLACKBLOOM\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/10\/28\/worldbuilding-challenge-the-gods-of-blackbloom\/\">The Gods of Blackbloom<\/a><\/strong><\/span>!&#8221; &#8212; is still open. Going to leave it open until 12:01AM on Friday, so when I wake up, I will choose the gods and begin a new worldbuilder challenge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I talked a little about the Occupy Wall Street movement and how that relates to writers (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Writers Are The 99%\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/11\/03\/writers-are-the-99\/\">Writers Are The 99%<\/a><\/strong><\/span>). And there I talked about the power of fiction to act as lies that deliver truth.<\/p>\n<p>And then I also tweeted something about how, in a way, the OWS movement is (ideally) trying to prevent the worst corporate cyberpunk futures &#8212; and even the dystopia of <strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong>. (Though one could argue there the abuses are more governmental.)<\/p>\n<p>Just the same, corporate abuse makes a nice theme, then, for this week&#8217;s challenge.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s your task.<\/p>\n<p>Write about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Corporate abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Any genre is apropos.<\/p>\n<p>1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Write at your blog and link back here. Make sure we all know how to get there and read it.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got one week: 11\/11\/11, at, well, noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OWS movement is (ideally) trying to prevent the worst corporate cyberpunk futures &#8212; and even the dystopia of The Hunger Games. (Though one could argue there the abuses are more governmental.) Just the same, corporate abuse makes a nice theme, then, for this week&#8217;s challenge.<\/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-11493","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-2Zn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","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=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11496,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}