{"id":14124,"date":"2012-05-25T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T04:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2012-05-25T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T13:16:22","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-one-random-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/05\/25\/flash-fiction-challenge-one-random-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: One Random Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s challenge &#8212; &#8220;The Paint Color Title Scheme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/watchout4snakes.com\/CreativityTools\/RandomSentence\/RandomSentence.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/watchout4snakes.com\/CreativityTools\/RandomSentence\/RandomSentence.aspx\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Click here right now<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is a random sentence generator.<\/p>\n<p>You will get a random sentence and you will use it as either the first <em>or<\/em> the last sentence of your up-to-1000-word flash fiction entry in this week&#8217;s challenge. For instance, I got the sentence: &#8220;The textual silence swallows against the geometry.&#8221; I have no idea what the fuck that means, but it&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p>Write in any genre.<\/p>\n<p>You have one week. Due by June 1st, noon EST (Friday).<\/p>\n<p>IN ADDITION, I&#8217;ll buy a random participant a copy of BLACKBIRDS &#8212; mass market paperback or Kindle (your choice). EDIT: Courtesy of the fine cyborgs at Angry Robot Books, this contest is extended to all international participants and shipping handled no matter where you live. Except the moon. We won&#8217;t ship to the moon because that shit gets expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Go and write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will get a random sentence and you will use it as either the first or the last sentence of your up-to-1000-word flash fiction entry in this week&#8217;s challenge. For instance, I got the sentence: &#8220;The textual silence swallows against the geometry.&#8221; I have no idea what the fuck that means, but it&#8217;s great. <\/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-14124","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-3FO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124","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=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14127,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions\/14127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}