{"id":22607,"date":"2020-05-01T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=22607"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:32:22","slug":"microfiction-practice-1-witmers-and-sheila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/microfiction-practice-1-witmers-and-sheila\/","title":{"rendered":"Microfiction Practice #1: Witmers and Sheila"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"smalltext highlight\"><em>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See <a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-new-writing-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> for some background.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prompt #211:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Genre: action\/adventure<\/li><li>Word: quixotic<\/li><li>Action: balancing the books<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Story<\/strong> <em>(98 words, per Microsoft Word)<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Sheila&#8217;s quixotic pet project \u2013 planting an Earth Day flag in the rain forest \u2013 had surely been doomed from the start. Her accountant Witmers had said so on Day 1, repeated it on Day 2 and all the other days. Sheila didn&#8217;t care. &#8220;Just get us the money,&#8221; she said. Witmers got them the money, yes. But did he really have to grasp the expenses with such a tight fist? Could he not have reconsidered the truly fatal decision: helicoptering them in, but trusting the guides to get them out \u2013 the damned bargain-basement Sherpa guides in their Everest off-season?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Don&#8217;t know what this is? See yesterday&#8217;s post for some background.] Prompt #211: Genre: action\/adventure Word: quixotic Action: balancing the books Story (98 words, per Microsoft Word): Sheila&#8217;s quixotic pet project \u2013 planting an Earth Day flag in the rain forest \u2013 had surely been doomed from the start. Her accountant Witmers had said so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,4878,105],"tags":[298,4752,5121,5126],"class_list":{"0":"post-22607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-06_writing","7":"category-fiction","8":"category-short-fiction","9":"tag-writing-exercises","10":"tag-nyc-midnight","11":"tag-flash-fiction","12":"tag-action-adventure","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-5SD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22611,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions\/22611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}