{"id":27884,"date":"2015-10-02T13:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27884"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:59:05","slug":"flash-nonfiction-challenge-tell-a-story-from-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/10\/02\/flash-nonfiction-challenge-tell-a-story-from-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash (Non)Fiction Challenge: Tell A Story From Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is going to be a bit different than the usual.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to do the standard &#8212; write a story, keep it around 1000 words, post it at your blog, and link back here in the comments so we can all see it.<\/p>\n<p>However, I want it to be a true story. Preferably, one that happened to you. Meaning, I&#8217;d like you to engage in a little creative non-fiction and write a story\u00a0<em>from your own life<\/em> instead of something made up. The value of looking to our own experiences are myriad &#8212; while we should never ever feel trapped by the needless rigors of WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, we should consider that advice as an occasional opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>So, you have the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Find a story from your life and write it. Keep it trim. Keep it vital. Make it awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Go.<\/p>\n<p>[edit: due in one week, as usual &#8212; by friday, oct 9th, noon est]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is going to be a bit different than the usual. I want you to do the standard &#8212; write a story, keep it around 1000 words, post it at your blog, and link back here in the comments so we can all see it. However, I want it to be a true story. [&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-27884","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-7fK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884","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=27884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27887,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions\/27887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}