{"id":50,"date":"2006-10-28T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-10-28T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T06:17:00","slug":"the-latest-meme-six-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-latest-meme-six-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest Meme &#8211; Six Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs Haikus! Can you tell a story in just six words? <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.11\/sixwords.html\">Wired magazine<\/a> picked up on this and published a big list. There are some crackers- mainly from writers- who else could write a story so succintly in just six words? <\/p>\n<p>The best theemes derive from &#8220;what if&#8221; fantasy, <\/p>\n<p>Here are my favourites from the Wired list.<\/p>\n<p>Osama\u2019s time machine: President Gore concerned.<br \/>&#8211; Charles Stross<\/p>\n<p>He read his obituary with confusion.<br \/>&#8211; Steven Meretzky<\/p>\n<p>Leia: &#8220;Baby&#8217;s yours.&#8221; Luke: &#8220;Bad news\u2026&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; Steven Meretzky<\/p>\n<p>And a few of my own&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Snipped the green wire.  Still ticking!<br \/>&#8211; David Bolton<\/p>\n<p>Time Machine Invented. Time Machine Invented&#8230;<br \/>&#8211; David Bolton<\/p>\n<p>Life found on Mars. Bowie sues.<br \/>&#8211; David Bolton<\/p>\n<p>Name that tune. Do a Deer.<br \/>&#8211; David Bolton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs Haikus! Can you tell a story in just six words? Wired magazine picked up on this and published a big list. There are some crackers- mainly from writers- who else could write a story so succintly in just six words? The best theemes derive from &#8220;what if&#8221; fantasy, Here are my favourites from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}