{"id":9601,"date":"2011-07-01T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=9601"},"modified":"2011-06-30T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T23:36:55","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/07\/01\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The Fourth Of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/113\/273407523_2a91dd0d20_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/113\/273407523_2a91dd0d20_z.jpg?resize=640%2C268\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Check out last week&#8217;s players in the &#8220;<a title=\"Sub-Genre Mash Up\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/06\/24\/flash-fiction-challenge-sub-genre-mash-up\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sub-Genre Mash-Up<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s the Fourth of July. In this country, that means grilled meats, flag-waving, fire-crackers, humidity, parades, patriotism, picnics, baseball, families, and so on, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a day of celebration.<\/p>\n<p>But fiction, well. Fiction likes a taste of the dark stuff. Fiction seeks to subvert happiness with a foul tincture of darkness. That, then, is your task for this week. Take the <strong>Fourth of July<\/strong> and muddy it up.<\/p>\n<p>The flash fiction must be set on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good challenge for horror or crime fiction, I think. Less so for fantasy and sci-fi, but if you think you can make it work, do it. Just be sure you show how long the shadows are on this hot summer holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Once again: 1000 words.<\/p>\n<p>Post it on your blog, and link back here, then make sure to let us know in the comments where to look for the fiction. You&#8217;ve got a week. Closing up shop Friday, July 8th, at 12 noon EST.<\/p>\n<p>Load up them bottle rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Jump into the pool.<\/p>\n<p>Tell the grillmaster how you like your burger.<\/p>\n<p>And be sure to hide the bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Friday. This is Terribleminds. That means it\u2019s high-time to do some motherfucking flash fiction awesomeness, am I right? I\u2019m totally right. Contained within is this week\u2019s challenge. Get in the game. Write your 1000 words. Go forth and be awesome.<\/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":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-9601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2uR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","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=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9605,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions\/9605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}