{"id":29268,"date":"2016-05-20T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=29268"},"modified":"2016-05-20T08:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:49:38","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-kids-say-the-darnderniest-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/05\/20\/flash-fiction-challenge-kids-say-the-darnderniest-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Kids Say The Darnderniest Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as this week is my son&#8217;s 5th birthday, I thought it would be fun to take some of the completely random shit that spills out of his head and use that as the basis for a flash fiction challenge. Below you&#8217;ll find a list of quotes from my son.<\/p>\n<p>Select one (or several, I don&#8217;t care) quotation and use it inside a piece of flash fiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length<\/strong>: 1000 words-ish<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due by<\/strong>: Friday, May 27th, noon EST<\/p>\n<p>Post at your online space. Link back in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>The quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Can I put goggles on the dog?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a three-headed flying werewolf in that tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can cut down a thousand trees with my teeth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will defeat it with Kitten Magic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will slice you into beef!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can still see without a face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You guys don&#8217;t make good choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said it was a legend, but\u00a0<em>I<\/em> know it&#8217;s real.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna ride you like a turkey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am queen of the goats.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as this week is my son&#8217;s 5th birthday, I thought it would be fun to take some of the completely random shit that spills out of his head and use that as the basis for a flash fiction challenge. Below you&#8217;ll find a list of quotes from my son. Select one (or several, I [&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-29268","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-7C4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268","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=29268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29272,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268\/revisions\/29272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}