{"id":26813,"date":"2015-05-15T06:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=26813"},"modified":"2015-05-15T06:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:59:13","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-car-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/05\/15\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-car-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The Car Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time of car chases.<\/p>\n<p>Today,\u00a0<strong>Mad Max<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago: the recent installment of the\u00a0<strong>Fast &amp; Furious<\/strong> series.<\/p>\n<p>Car chases are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>So, when I got an email from reader Scott Lyerly who said, &#8220;Hey, you should do a whole flash fiction challenge based around car chases,&#8221; well, dang, I thought he had the right idea.<\/p>\n<p>That, then, is your mission.<\/p>\n<p>You have 2000 words to write a piece of fiction that comprises a car chase. Doesn&#8217;t matter the genre or how you frame it &#8212; but it must feature and in fact\u00a0<em>showcase<\/em> a car chase.<\/p>\n<p>Post that fiction to your blog or other online space. Drop a link here so we can see it.<\/p>\n<p>Your story? Due by next Friday, the 22nd of May, noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>Start your engines.<\/p>\n<p>Ready?<\/p>\n<p>Set?<\/p>\n<p>GO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the time of car chases. Today,\u00a0Mad Max. A few weeks ago: the recent installment of the\u00a0Fast &amp; Furious series. Car chases are awesome. So, when I got an email from reader Scott Lyerly who said, &#8220;Hey, you should do a whole flash fiction challenge based around car chases,&#8221; well, dang, I thought he [&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-26813","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-6Yt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813","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=26813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26814,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions\/26814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}