{"id":8640,"date":"2012-03-16T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2012-03-16T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:37:00","slug":"55friday-the-doowutchyalike-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/55friday-the-doowutchyalike-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"55Friday: The &#8220;Doowutchyalike&#8221;-edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been an eventful 24 hours, hasn&#8217;t it? The end of an &#8220;era&#8221;, is how some of you readers generously termed it on various social media sites. It&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> just the end of a site that was once bigger in every way than it currently is. What was once a &#8220;must-read-daily&#8221; turned in to an &#8220;Eh, I&#8217;ll poke my head in weekly&#8221;-sort of a blog and that&#8217;s perfectly understandable. The party has been over for a little while. But while many of you wish we would stay around for at least those weekly visits (you are creatures of routine, aren&#8217;t you!), that wouldn&#8217;t be right.<\/p>\n\n<p>We can, however, resurrect SOMETHING weekly: the 55Friday <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_fiction\">flash fiction<\/a> challenge. See? I didn&#8217;t ignore ALL your tweeted pleas.<\/p>\n\n<p>I know in the past that I picked a theme to help you start your engines, but somehow, I don&#8217;t think that will be necessary this time. Write about whatever you like&#8211; just contain yourself in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/55_Fiction\">55 words<\/a> when you do it. Ready? For old time&#8217;s sake&#8230;go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well. It&#8217;s been an eventful 24 hours, hasn&#8217;t it? The end of an &#8220;era&#8221;, is how some of you readers generously termed it on various social media sites. It&#8217;s really just the end of a site that was once bigger &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/55friday-the-doowutchyalike-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8643,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/8643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}