{"id":525,"date":"2009-06-27T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=525"},"modified":"2009-06-27T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T16:23:11","slug":"a-precise-dose-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"A precise dose of words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constrained art forms, like haiku or alliterative poetry or Weird Al parodies, have always intrigued me: I admire those who can create while laboring under (sometimes quite strict) limitations.  Yesterday, I happened upon <a href=\"http:\/\/100wordstories.com\/\">100wordstories.com<\/a>.  Each day, they post a topic, and seven primary contributors write a story on that topic, using exactly 100 words, no more, no less.  Visitors are encouraged to post their own stories.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent topic was from June 19: &#8220;No one is listening.&#8221;  Always up for a challenge, I posted this story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>A Furtive Caesura<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My entrance is coming up in thirty seconds. I can hear the pirate&#8217;s brassy threats and Lisa&#8217;s pleading replies. I&#8217;m about to sweep in and save her from the villain. I brush at the curtain with my sword and check the timing. Twenty seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>I duck away from the bright stage entrance and slip the note into her red canvas bookbag. I&#8217;m back at the curtain with three seconds to go. One deep breath, and I&#8217;m striding onto the stage, sword at the ready, howling for the pirate to let Lisa go. She&#8217;ll find out about the breakup later.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can contribute your own story <a href=\"http:\/\/100wordstories.com\/2009\/06\/friday_70.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(This post is also 100 words.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constrained art forms, like haiku or alliterative poetry or Weird Al parodies, have always intrigued me: I admire those who can create while laboring under (sometimes quite strict) limitations. Yesterday, I happened upon 100wordstories.com. Each day, they post a topic, and seven primary contributors write a story on that topic, using exactly 100 words, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}