{"id":337,"date":"2008-09-01T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/09\/01\/twittering-a-tale\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:27:26","slug":"twittering-a-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/09\/01\/twittering-a-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Twittering a tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite short short story is by Hemmingway. It is all of six words long &#8211; but boy, does it pack a punch. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It goes, &#8220;For sale, baby shoes, never used.&#8221; Wow! <\/p>\n<p>It turns out that such short stories are not merely a novelty. The advent of Twitter and microblogging, with its limitations on how many characters can be typed at a time, are increasingly being used to create stories. <\/p>\n<p>This article by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080901-byte-sized-stories-twittering-a-tiny-tale.html\">Byte-sized stories: Twittering a tiny tale) <\/a>attempts to list some of them. These are excellent examples of how constraints can actual foster creativity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite short short story is by Hemmingway. It is all of six words long &#8211; but boy, does it pack a punch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10,11,40,5,37,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}