{"id":29845,"date":"2016-08-26T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=29845"},"modified":"2016-08-26T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:23:39","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-behold-the-idiomatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2016\/08\/26\/flash-fiction-challenge-behold-the-idiomatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Behold The Idiomatic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theidiomatic.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Idiomatic<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love it. It basically mashes up a couple-few idioms into something new and very possibly inane, and very possibly wise. (Example:\u00a0<span id=\"saying\">\u201cGod shouldn&#8217;t cross the bridge till you come to it.\u201d What does that mean? I don&#8217;t know! But damnit, I like it.) It<\/span>\u00a0forms the backbone of today&#8217;s fiction challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Click it. Get a fake mash-up idiom you like. (Re-clicks are fine, obviously.)<\/p>\n<p>Then\u00a0use it in a story.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length<\/strong>: ~1000 words<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due by<\/strong>: Friday, September 2nd, noon EST (holy shit, it&#8217;ll be September soon, you guys)<\/p>\n<p>Write it at your online space, link to it in the comments, and voila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idiomatic. I love it. It basically mashes up a couple-few idioms into something new and very possibly inane, and very possibly wise. (Example:\u00a0\u201cGod shouldn&#8217;t cross the bridge till you come to it.\u201d What does that mean? I don&#8217;t know! But damnit, I like it.) It\u00a0forms the backbone of today&#8217;s fiction challenge. Click it. Get [&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-29845","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-7Ln","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845","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=29845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29850,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions\/29850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}