{"id":1858,"date":"2015-06-08T03:08:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T19:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2015-06-08T03:08:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T19:08:47","slug":"each-others-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/06\/08\/each-others-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Each Other&#8217;s Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barbara and Dave fought more on vacation, and much more intensely, than any other time in their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish you&#8217;d just shut up about it,&#8221; Barbara finally shouted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as you admit that this time it wasn&#8217;t my fault,&#8221; Dave countered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, it&#8217;s not your fault. Are you happy now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221; Having gained her absolution, Dave stopped bickering and turned away. <\/p>\n<p>Neither of them spoke for a long time. They just bobbed quietly in the water, wishing the other one wasn&#8217;t there. It would have been better to die alone than to endure each other&#8217;s company a moment longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a 101-word story I wrote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101words.org\/anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\">101 Words<\/a>. You should check out their site.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara and Dave fought more on vacation, and much more intensely, than any other time in their marriage. &#8220;I wish you&#8217;d just shut up about it,&#8221; Barbara finally shouted. &#8220;As soon as you admit that this time it wasn&#8217;t my fault,&#8221; Dave countered. &#8220;Okay, it&#8217;s not your fault. Are you happy now?&#8221; &#8220;Yes.&#8221; Having gained [&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":[3646,505,341,2493,3647,1095,552,282,1838,2863,177],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-101-words","tag-absolution","tag-company","tag-die","tag-endure","tag-fight","tag-marriage","tag-ocean","tag-silence","tag-vacation","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}