{"id":14705,"date":"2012-07-06T07:32:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2012-07-06T07:51:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:51:53","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-fairy-tale-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/07\/06\/flash-fiction-challenge-fairy-tale-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Fairy Tale Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/06\/29\/flash-fiction-challenge-another-story-in-three-sentences\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/06\/29\/flash-fiction-challenge-another-story-in-three-sentences\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tell A Story In Three Sentences<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s challenge shall be a curious one.<\/p>\n<p>Take a fairy tale &#8212; any fairy tale at all you want, or a fable, or a Mother Goose story &#8212; and rewrite it in a modern context.<\/p>\n<p>Now, &#8220;modern&#8221; is a little open to interpretation &#8212; if you took Little Red Riding Hood and set it in the 1920s, sure. Or The Ant And The Grasshopper and set it on a space station 100 years in the future, that&#8217;s fine, too.<\/p>\n<p>Point is: avoid any sense of medieval-ness. Get out of the past. Into this (or the last) century and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>As always: 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Post on your blog, link back here.<\/p>\n<p>Due by next Friday &#8212; FRIDAY THE 13TH MOO HOO HA HA. By noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>Spin us a tale, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;Tell A Story In Three Sentences&#8221; Today&#8217;s challenge shall be a curious one. Take a fairy tale &#8212; any fairy tale at all you want, or a fable, or a Mother Goose story &#8212; and rewrite it in a modern context. Now, &#8220;modern&#8221; is a little open to interpretation &#8212; if you [&hellip;]<\/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":[71,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-14705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","8":"tag-fridayflash","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-3Pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705","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=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14707,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions\/14707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}