{"id":9045,"date":"2013-11-24T05:25:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T09:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2013-11-17T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:54:34","slug":"the-shortlist-crime-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9045","title":{"rendered":"The Shortlist Crime Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z112413lansdale_hitcall.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For their <strong>300th issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortlist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shortlist.com<\/a><\/strong> came up with an idea to challenge their favorite writers. \u00a0The writers were asked to come up with an original noir story that was exactly 300 words long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Frank Bill<\/strong>, <strong>George Pelecanos<\/strong>, <strong>James Sallis<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortlist.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-shortlist-crime-challenge\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>over a dozen other writers met the challenge<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0My favorite of the bunch was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortlist.com\/entertainment\/books\/hit-call-by-joe-r-lansdale\" target=\"_blank\">Joe R. Lansdale&#8217;s &#8220;Hit Call.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>That doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise since<strong> Lansdale&#8217;s <\/strong>writing always entertains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For their 300th issue Shortlist.com came up with an idea to challenge their favorite writers. \u00a0The writers were asked to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"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":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9048,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}