{"id":1720,"date":"2015-01-28T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2015-01-28T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:12:24","slug":"the-exporters-lament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/01\/28\/the-exporters-lament-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exporter&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Export there is something heroic about earning foreign currency for my country. It makes up for jet lag, family absences, and living out of a suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>Disembarking the flight home, I am thinking of freshly made meals and welcome home sex, not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n<p>I open the front door to enter a silent, empty house; furniture, fixtures and fittings gone.  <\/p>\n<p>On the kitchen bench the business card of a lawyer, specializing in Family Law.<\/p>\n<p>My mind floods with stories told by fellow exporters, their helpless acute vulnerability, when their wives ran off with another man or woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarryO_Tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Barry O&#8217;Farrell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barry O&#8217;Farrell is an actor in Brisbane Australia, who worked in Export many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories by Barry can be found at Cyclamens and Swords, 50 Word Stories and here at A Story In 100 Words.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Export there is something heroic about earning foreign currency for my country. It makes up for jet lag, family absences, and living out of a suitcase. Disembarking the flight home, I am thinking of freshly made meals and welcome home sex, not necessarily in that order. I open the front door to enter 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":[2978,2696,3294,3289,3293,3286,614,3295,3288,3292,2169,41,3287,2103,3290,1097,2058,2922,3291,2634,1707],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-bench","tag-business-card","tag-country","tag-empty","tag-export","tag-family","tag-family-law","tag-foreign-currency","tag-front-door","tag-furniture","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heroic","tag-house","tag-jet-lag","tag-kitchen","tag-lawyer","tag-mind","tag-suitcase","tag-vulnerability","tag-wives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}