{"id":1444,"date":"2014-02-03T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T07:20:55","slug":"street-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2014\/02\/03\/street-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November spreads gray across sticky sidewalks as acrid smoke from burn barrels warms frigid hands and stings sleep-weary eyes. Winos huddle wary knowing tempers can flare as quickly as last week\u2019s newspapers tossed in the fires. On the streets a life is worth a pint of Mad Dog. Desperate men commit despicable acts for a drink. Women trade sex and dignity for comfort under blankets. Robert the Shank holds jagged metal to a girl\u2019s throat. Bettie slams a bottle against his ear. He cuts her bad. An ambulance takes her to County. She smiles bleeding, thinking of a clean bed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor, Jeff Switt<\/p>\n<p>Jeff is a retired advertising agency guy who loves writing flash fiction\u2014some days to curb his angst, other days to fuel it. His words have been featured at Dogzplot, Boston Literary Review, Flash Fiction World, Nailpolish Stories, 50-Word Stories, and Shotgun Honey, and have appeared at lots of places that take whatever you send in.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November spreads gray across sticky sidewalks as acrid smoke from burn barrels warms frigid hands and stings sleep-weary eyes. Winos huddle wary knowing tempers can flare as quickly as last week\u2019s newspapers tossed in the fires. On the streets a life is worth a pint of Mad Dog. Desperate men commit despicable acts for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2677,41,1075,292,2675,2678,2569,2676,2483,2679],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bleeding","tag-guest-contributor","tag-homeless","tag-hospital","tag-jeff-switt","tag-mad-dog","tag-sex","tag-street-life","tag-violence","tag-winos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}