{"id":22901,"date":"2026-02-09T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/?p=22901"},"modified":"2026-02-09T07:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:25:48","slug":"automatonophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/flash-fiction\/automatonophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatonophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started as\u2026 Well, it just started. I\u2019m terrified of Muppets.<\/p>\n<p>The big ones, really. They would loom onto the screen with gigantic eyes. Have you ever looked at a large bird close up, like an owl or an eagle? Huge, ruthless eyes that barely blink and would tear you limb from limb if they had the chance.<\/p>\n<p>But Muppets don\u2019t end with your TV screens. Did you know? They infiltrate your workplaces, your idols, your governments.<\/p>\n<p>They speak in nonsensical clich\u00e9s, are celebrated for distracting from our communities and present opinions as fact.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, I\u2019m terrified of Muppets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Muppets don\u2019t end with your TV screens. Did you know? They infiltrate your workplaces, your idols, your governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":24391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flash-fiction","writer-steven-whitaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24392,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22901\/revisions\/24392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}