{"id":16518,"date":"2012-12-14T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=16518"},"modified":"2012-12-14T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:42:14","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/12\/14\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-war-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: &#8220;The War On Christmas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First up, a bit of administrative duties &#8212; for the <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/11\/30\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-last-1000-words-of-an-non-existent-novel\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/11\/30\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-last-1000-words-of-an-non-existent-novel\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>last flash fiction challenge<\/strong><\/span><\/a> I was to pick a random participant to receive an Art Harder mug or e-book? The winner on that one was Ashley Lorelle. Ashley, you should email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n<p>Now: time for the actual flash fiction challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I love the concept of the &#8220;War on Christmas.&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean that I like the actual\u00a0faux-bullshit &#8220;war,&#8221; I mean, I like that\u00a0<em>term<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to use that term literally.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to write a war\u00a0<em>about<\/em>\u00a0&#8212; or even against &#8212; Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Or, really, any winter holiday that tickles your fancy. Hanukah, Solstice, Kwanzaa, whatever. Hell, all of &#8217;em wrapped up in one.<\/p>\n<p>Interpret that as you see fit.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got the traditional 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Post online, then link to it in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got one week: till Friday the 21st at noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick a random participant to receive a&#8230; random holiday gift from yours truly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First up, a bit of administrative duties &#8212; for the last flash fiction challenge I was to pick a random participant to receive an Art Harder mug or e-book? The winner on that one was Ashley Lorelle. Ashley, you should email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com. Now: time for the actual flash fiction [&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":[75],"class_list":{"0":"post-16518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fridayflash","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16518","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=16518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16521,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16518\/revisions\/16521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}