{"id":1777,"date":"2015-03-04T16:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T08:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2015-03-04T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T08:56:21","slug":"bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/03\/04\/bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The company declared bankruptcy this morning. Everyone is in shock. No-one saw it coming.<\/p>\n

Overnight the company\u2019s liquid assets vanished. No-one seems to know why or how.<\/p>\n

In a numb state, I work as quickly as possible preparing the forms and statements the incoming Liquidator will require. My heart is not in it.<\/p>\n

The Directors need to sign the documents. I enter the Boardroom freely, the door isn\u2019t locked.<\/p>\n

The five directors are standing around the boardroom table. Each has a suitcase open on a chair beside him. The table creaks under the weight of the cash piled on it.<\/strong>
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\nFrom Guest Contributor Barry O’Farrell <\/p>\n

Barry O’Farrell is an actor living in Brisbane, Australia. Barry’s stories have appeared in Cyclamens & Swords, 50-Word Stories, and of course here at A Story In 100 Words.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The company declared bankruptcy this morning. Everyone is in shock. No-one saw it coming. Overnight the company\u2019s liquid assets vanished. No-one seems to know why or how. In a numb state, I work as quickly as possible preparing the forms and statements the incoming Liquidator will require. My heart is not in it. The Directors […]<\/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":[228,3419,1103,2810,341,3417,3418,2805,3414,749,3413,3416,3420,3412,3415,3291,3221],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bankruptcy","tag-boardroom","tag-cash","tag-chair","tag-company","tag-directors","tag-documents","tag-door","tag-forms","tag-heart","tag-liquid-assets","tag-liquidator","tag-locked","tag-shock","tag-statements","tag-suitcase","tag-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","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=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}