{"id":4371,"date":"2011-07-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2011-07-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T05:00:00","slug":"flash-fiction-katie-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4371","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction: Katie J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crestway75\/2800868684\/\" title=\"SMART KEY by Perry French, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3062\/2800868684_569ac94cb4_t.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" style=\"float:left; margin:10px; border:1px;\" alt=\"SMART KEY\"><\/a>Clouds bully the sun trying to rise over her head. Growling thunder leans heavy on the trees across the street.  She walks to her car, ruminating on her mistakes until she doesn\u2019t find her keys. Did she leave them in the car\u2014on her desk? Did Jerry\u2014take them? She\u2019ll lose her job, if she loses her keys.<\/p>\n<p>Like a black eye, the sun pierces through ugly clouds as she wilts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Jesus\u2014when does it end\u2014what if I\u2014help me. Help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The keys lie in the grass behind her. She grabs them and stumbles to her car.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clouds bully the sun trying to rise over her head. Growling thunder leans heavy on the trees across the street. She walks to her car, ruminating on her mistakes until she doesn\u2019t find her keys. Did she leave them in the car\u2014on her desk? Did Jerry\u2014take them? She\u2019ll lose her job, if she loses her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flash Fiction: Katie J.<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}