{"id":27035,"date":"2015-06-12T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27035"},"modified":"2015-06-12T07:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:14:47","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-dead-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/06\/12\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-dead-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The Dead Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many stories begin with a dead body.<\/p>\n<p>A dead body is a gateway to mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A story to be solved.<\/p>\n<p>The aftermath of incident that leads to further incident.<\/p>\n<p>It works across a variety of genres, a plethora of storytelling styles.<\/p>\n<p>Dead bodies: they do a story good.<\/p>\n<p>AND SO, today&#8217;s flash fiction is precisely that &#8212; I want you to take your story and it must begin with a dead body. That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the only stipulation. In the first paragraph you must introduce a dead body. Doesn&#8217;t matter the context or the genre. But you gotta check that box marked<\/p>\n<p><strong>[ ] DEAD BODY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You get 1000 words, as usual. Due by the 19th, at noon EST. Post the story at your online space, then drop a link in the comments below so we can all go check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many stories begin with a dead body. A dead body is a gateway to mystery. A story to be solved. The aftermath of incident that leads to further incident. It works across a variety of genres, a plethora of storytelling styles. Dead bodies: they do a story good. AND SO, today&#8217;s flash fiction is [&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-27035","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-723","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27035","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=27035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27037,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27035\/revisions\/27037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}