{"id":31260,"date":"2017-08-04T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31260"},"modified":"2017-08-04T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:14:30","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-behold-the-magic-realism-bot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/08\/04\/flash-fiction-challenge-behold-the-magic-realism-bot\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Behold The Magic Realism Bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone suggested this one to me this week, and I sadly forget who (apologies!) &#8212; but there is a Twitter account called MAGICAL REALISM BOT. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s really a bot or someone is actually creating or curating it, but it doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Because it is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Especially as fodder for flash fiction.<\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagicRealismBot\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>go look at it<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pick a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Write a short story based on that tweet.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Go do it.<\/p>\n<p>Length: ~1500 words<\/p>\n<p>Due by: Friday, August 11th, noon EST<\/p>\n<p>Post online.<\/p>\n<p>Give us a link in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone suggested this one to me this week, and I sadly forget who (apologies!) &#8212; but there is a Twitter account called MAGICAL REALISM BOT. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s really a bot or someone is actually creating or curating it, but it doesn&#8217;t matter. Because it is brilliant. Especially as fodder for flash fiction. [&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-31260","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-88c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260","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=31260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31261,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31260\/revisions\/31261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}