{"id":243,"date":"2012-12-17T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=243"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T18:22:58","slug":"my-award-losing-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/my-award-losing-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"My award-losing short story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a locale chocolatier held a short story contest recently. Actually, it was more of a flash fiction contest, but who am I to quibble with semantics?* <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-244\" alt=\"loser\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/loser-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>ANYWAY, the catch of the contest was that the story could be no longer than 57 words (long story as to why). \u00c2\u00a0The prizes were decent enough that I decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n<p>I did not win.<\/p>\n<p>I was not even a finalist.<\/p>\n<p>Well, poop.<\/p>\n<p>But I liked my entry. So I thought I&#8217;d share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHECKMATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have a problem, you and me. Actually, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more your problem. You see, I know you took the last chocolate chip cookie. And I know you hate to share. Before you sink your teeth in, I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something\u00c2\u00a0<i>you<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0should know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve\u00c2\u00a0hidden the milk.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*=I quibble with semantics all the time. It&#8217;s kinda my thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a locale chocolatier held a short story contest recently. Actually, it was more of a flash fiction contest, but who am I to quibble with semantics?* ANYWAY, the catch of the contest was that the story could be no longer than 57 words (long story as to why). \u00c2\u00a0The prizes were decent enough that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}