{"id":2461,"date":"2016-08-29T17:38:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2016-08-29T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:38:29","slug":"write-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/08\/29\/write-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s my second semester at college. When I started school, I really wanted to become a writer. But I always have trouble deciding what to write about.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m flunking my Creative Writing class!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s the final and it&#8217;s 60% of our grade. The instructor announces, \u201cWrite a very short story, with a protagonist, his\/her background, his\/her goal, an obstacle to that goal, ending with a little twist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have trouble writing any story, let alone one with all those requirements!<\/p>\n<p>Time is running out. So I just start writing:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s my second semester at college. When I started school&#8230;\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Kent V. Anderson<\/p>\n<p>When Kent isn&#8217;t writing stories, he is building robots.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my second semester at college. When I started school, I really wanted to become a writer. But I always have trouble deciding what to write about. So I&#8217;m flunking my Creative Writing class! Today&#8217;s the final and it&#8217;s 60% of our grade. The instructor announces, \u201cWrite a very short story, with a protagonist, his\/her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5297,5292,4605,2294,5301,5260,5298,5294,41,5293,4804,5299,5296,5302,5303,5295,2697,2079,1109,3918,5300,2293],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-background","tag-class","tag-college","tag-creative-writing","tag-ending","tag-final","tag-goal","tag-grade","tag-guest-contributor","tag-instructor","tag-kent-v-anderson","tag-obstacle","tag-protagonist","tag-requirements","tag-semester","tag-short-story","tag-story","tag-student","tag-time","tag-trouble","tag-twist","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}