{"id":1200,"date":"2007-10-15T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2007-10-15T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:57:09","slug":"pete-lit-six-word-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/10\/pete-lit-six-word-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Lit: Six-Word Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/images-1.jpeg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-1200];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/images-1.jpeg','popup','width=128,height=99,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/images-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"129\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Images-1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/boogaj.typepad.com\/pete_lit\/2005\/07\/sixword_stories.html\" >Pete Lit: Six-Word Stories<\/a>:<br \/>\nSix-Word Stories<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. Rumor has it that he considered his result (&#8220;For sale: baby shoes, never used.&#8221;) to be his greatest work. In its most recent issue, Utne reprinted a piece from the Fall 2004 issue of BlackBook in which that magazine asked 25 big-name writers to write their own six-word stories. Unfortunately, neither magazine had the story online, but here are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Lit: Six-Word Stories: Six-Word Stories Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. Rumor has it that he considered his result (&#8220;For sale: baby shoes, never used.&#8221;) to be his greatest work. In its most recent issue, Utne reprinted a piece from the Fall 2004 issue of BlackBook in which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/10\/pete-lit-six-word-stories\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pete Lit: Six-Word Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-jm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}