{"id":19775,"date":"2013-07-26T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19775"},"modified":"2013-07-26T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:19:38","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-four-random-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/26\/flash-fiction-challenge-four-random-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Four Random Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/19\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-plot-scenario-generator\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/07\/19\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-plot-scenario-generator\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Plot Scenario Generator<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge is pretty straight-up simple:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to give you ten random items.<\/p>\n<p>You must pick <em>four<\/em> and incorporate all four into a single piece of flash fiction (~1000 words).<\/p>\n<p>Those items are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An unopened envelope.<\/p>\n<p>A dead man&#8217;s guitar.<\/p>\n<p>A rocking chair.<\/p>\n<p>A chess piece.<\/p>\n<p>A road sign.<\/p>\n<p>A child&#8217;s toy.<\/p>\n<p>A leather mask.<\/p>\n<p>An animal skull.<\/p>\n<p>An iron horseshoe.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer&#8217;s badge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your story is due by next Friday, August 2nd, noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>Post at your online space and link back here. Whaddya waiting for? Get writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s challenge: &#8220;Plot Scenario Generator.&#8221; This week&#8217;s challenge is pretty straight-up simple: I&#8217;m going to give you ten random items. You must pick four and incorporate all four into a single piece of flash fiction (~1000 words). Those items are: An unopened envelope. A dead man&#8217;s guitar. A rocking chair. A chess piece. A [&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-19775","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\/pv7MR-58X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775","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=19775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19781,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions\/19781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}