{"id":1836,"date":"2015-05-08T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2015-05-08T02:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:00:28","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/05\/08\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I hate going to the Introduction Agency to get a date. There is a certain sense of shame and failure. <\/p>\n<p>This time it\u2019s for a skiing, long weekend my boss has arranged. I can\u2019t attend another company weekend alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy screen has a record of your preference,\u201d says the receptionist. \u201cYou last used our personal services four months ago. Your good credit qualifies you for bronze level membership. Would you like to join?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tempted, I nod my head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can introduce you to Amber, model looks, brunette, elegant. Amber will be fully recharged in about ninety minutes. Care to wait?\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarryO_Tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Barry O&#8217;Farrell<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Barry is an actor living in Brisbane, Australia. Barry&#8217;s other stories can be found at Cyclamens &#038; Swords, 50 Word Stories, and here at A Story In 100 Words.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate going to the Introduction Agency to get a date. There is a certain sense of shame and failure. This time it\u2019s for a skiing, long weekend my boss has arranged. I can\u2019t attend another company weekend alone. \u201cMy screen has a record of your preference,\u201d says the receptionist. \u201cYou last used our personal [&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":[3572,2978,936,341,299,485,41,2868,3571,3575,2421,3573,3574],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-agency","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-boss","tag-company","tag-date","tag-failure","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hate","tag-introduction","tag-model","tag-shame","tag-skiing","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","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=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}