{"id":30551,"date":"2017-01-20T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=30551"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:00:31","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-hope-in-the-face-of-hopelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/01\/20\/flash-fiction-challenge-hope-in-the-face-of-hopelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Hope In The Face Of Hopelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s challenge is as apt as you want it to be &#8212; the theme of your as-yet-unwritten story must be,\u00a0<em>we need hope in the face of of hopelessness<\/em>. It&#8217;s a bit dramatic-sounding, but themes are rarely served by a soft touch. So, that&#8217;s your task. Tackle a short piece of flash fiction that deals with that as its central theme: why we need hope in the face of its opposite.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got, mmm, let&#8217;s say 2000 words for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Due by Friday, January 27th, noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>Post online, give us a link below, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s challenge is as apt as you want it to be &#8212; the theme of your as-yet-unwritten story must be,\u00a0we need hope in the face of of hopelessness. It&#8217;s a bit dramatic-sounding, but themes are rarely served by a soft touch. So, that&#8217;s your task. Tackle a short piece of flash fiction that deals with [&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-30551","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-7WL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30551","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=30551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30553,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30551\/revisions\/30553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}