{"id":1262,"date":"2012-11-22T01:07:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T06:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2012-11-16T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:16:26","slug":"six-word-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/11\/six-word-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-Word Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I try to write a few six-word stories and learn a few things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have heard about six-word stories and stories written with only a few words. Okay, enough thinking and waiting; here are a few attempts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The window broke; I jumped out.<\/li>\n<li>I woke, he died, me too.<\/li>\n<li>The grandchildren visited. My pains disappeared.<\/li>\n<li>I ate fruits and vegetables undying.<\/li>\n<li>Tight shoes caused frequent migraine headaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>I had to search for words that carried more meaning. That was a good exercise.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote five stories in two minutes. That is some sort of prolific record for me.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t as difficult as I thought it would be.<\/p>\n<p>I was searching for a beginning, middle, and end.<\/p>\n<p>This was a learning exercise, and that is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I try to write a few six-word stories and learn a few things. I have heard about six-word stories and stories written with only a few words. Okay, enough thinking and waiting; here are a few attempts. The window broke; I jumped out. I woke, he died, me too. The grandchildren visited. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,50,5],"tags":[154,172,128],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-thinking","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-thinking","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}