{"id":19188,"date":"2013-06-16T07:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19188"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T12:18:19","slug":"19188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/16\/19188\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Bad Dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-its-abc-meets-xyz\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-its-abc-meets-xyz\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ABC Meets XYZ<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All right.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge (up a couple days late since for some reason again WordPress borked me on a Friday where I was gone from the house, grarrrgh) is pretty simple: in the tradition of Don Draper, Tony Soprano, Walter White, or even my own Mookie Pearl (<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-its-abc-meets-xyz\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-its-abc-meets-xyz\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>hint hint<\/strong><\/span><\/a>), it&#8217;s time to write a bit of flash fiction featuring a bad dad. These fathers fit on the lower more sinister echelon of the D&amp;D alignment chart. The question is: can you also make them sympathetic?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got (less than) a week: due by Friday the 21st, noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>Write at your online space.<\/p>\n<p>Link back here.<\/p>\n<p>Go and write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;ABC Meets XYZ&#8220; All right. This week&#8217;s challenge (up a couple days late since for some reason again WordPress borked me on a Friday where I was gone from the house, grarrrgh) is pretty simple: in the tradition of Don Draper, Tony Soprano, Walter White, or even my own Mookie Pearl (hint [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sv7MR-19188","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188","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=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19192,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions\/19192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}