{"id":45476,"date":"2019-03-14T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45476"},"modified":"2019-03-13T23:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T03:30:49","slug":"writing-prompt-small-town-crime-blotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/writing-prompt-small-town-crime-blotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt: Small-Town Crime Blotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45627 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-300x158.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-300x158.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-768x404.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-1024x538.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-1200x631.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-1320x694.jpeg 1320w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-600x315.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-1250x657.jpeg 1250w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54-400x210.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/3812a54c-4ffc-4b7f-989e-d60a41cc4a54.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>In his upcoming book <em>SLANT<\/em>,\u00a0Aaron Schuman documents life in Amherst, Massachusetts, with photographs inspired by blurbs in the local newspaper&#8217;s crime blotter. The brief descriptions of police calls are deadpan and unintentionally hysterical, but even in these 50 word mini-articles, full stories and characters suggest themselves. Have a look and consider checking out your own local small-town paper&#8217;s crime reports. What happens next?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/scenes-from-a-small-town-crime-blotter\">Read the full post on <em>Topic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his upcoming book SLANT,\u00a0Aaron Schuman documents life in Amherst, Massachusetts, with photographs inspired by blurbs in the local newspaper&#8217;s crime blotter. The brief descriptions of police calls are deadpan and unintentionally hysterical, but even in these 50 word mini-articles, full stories and characters suggest themselves. Have a look and consider checking out your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[474,440],"tags":[513],"class_list":["post-45476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-mystery","category-writing-prompts","tag-what-happens-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45631,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45476\/revisions\/45631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}