{"id":1572,"date":"2014-10-01T00:39:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2014-10-01T00:39:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:39:58","slug":"nighttime-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2014\/10\/01\/nighttime-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Nighttime Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The sound startles me from my dreams.  Instead of the toasty, glowing sands succumbing to the fall of my weight, I hear the dry pricks of teensy feet against the cool tile on which my bed rests. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is that noise?\u201d my wife asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s those damned worms,\u201d I retort, covering my ears with my damp pillow. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t you going to kill them?\u201d  She rolls over.<\/p>\n<p>I unwrap myself and step down to search for the culprits.  I don\u2019t even take a step when I hear the wet crunches.  Too tired to clean my foot, I crawl back in bed. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor, Bradley Sides<\/p>\n<p>Bradley Sides holds an M.A. in English. His fiction appears (and is forthcoming) in Belle R\u00eave Literary Journal, Birmingham Arts Journal, Boston Literary Magazine, Freedom Fiction Journal, Inwood Indiana, Literary Orphans and Used Gravitrons. He is a staff writer for Bookkaholic. He resides in Florence, Alabama, with his wife, and he is working on his debut novel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sound startles me from my dreams. Instead of the toasty, glowing sands succumbing to the fall of my weight, I hear the dry pricks of teensy feet against the cool tile on which my bed rests. \u201cWhat is that noise?\u201d my wife asks. \u201cIt\u2019s those damned worms,\u201d I retort, covering my ears with my [&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":[2501,2936,1211,2940,41,2939,2937,2914,153,2938],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bed","tag-bradley-sides","tag-dreams","tag-foot","tag-guest-contributor","tag-pillow","tag-sands","tag-sound","tag-wife","tag-worms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","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=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}