{"id":495,"date":"2020-06-10T22:09:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2023-03-31T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T20:05:42","slug":"i-went-to-the-tardigrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"I Went To The Tardigrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;She was sucking on a clump of moss, emptying it like a juice box. I felt that twinge of pique I get whenever someone slurps in my presence, but I put a lid on it.&#8221;<\/em> Finalist for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokelong.com\/the-long-list-and-finalists-smokelong-quarterly-award-for-flash-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction<\/a>. Read it and all the contest winners in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokelong.com\/archives\/quarterly\/issue-sixty-the-smokelong-quarterly-award-for-flash-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SmokeLong&#8217;s\u00a015th Anniversary Issue<\/a>. (And read the &#8220;Smoke &amp; Mirrors&#8221; interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokelong.com\/smoke-mirrors-an-interview-with-eliezra-schaffzin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She was sucking on a clump of moss, emptying it like a juice box. I felt that twinge of pique I get whenever someone slurps in my presence, but I put a lid on it.&#8221; Finalist for the SmokeLong Quarterly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/?p=495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliezraschaffzin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}