{"id":31570,"date":"2017-10-27T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31570"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:32:43","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/10\/27\/flash-fiction-challenge-things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Things Fall Apart, The Center Cannot Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have Yeats on the mind, today, so we return to the flash fiction challenges (hi! back from traveling!) with you writing a story based on that central theme of Yeats&#8217; poem,\u00a0<strong>The Second Coming<\/strong>, meaning this gem right here:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You will take this core idea, this theme, this argument.<\/p>\n<p>You will write it into some flash fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Length: ~1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Due by: November 3rd, noon EST (Friday).<\/p>\n<p>Post at your online space. Link to it in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Go write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have Yeats on the mind, today, so we return to the flash fiction challenges (hi! back from traveling!) with you writing a story based on that central theme of Yeats&#8217; poem,\u00a0The Second Coming, meaning this gem right here: &#8220;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.&#8221; You will take this core idea, this theme, this [&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-31570","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-8dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570","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=31570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31572,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570\/revisions\/31572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}