{"id":1879,"date":"2015-06-18T05:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T21:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2015-06-18T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T21:53:53","slug":"the-ceramic-urn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/06\/18\/the-ceramic-urn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ceramic Urn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We own a precious family heirloom; a ceramic urn. Well, it may be precious in the sense of sentimental value but we would like to know more about it. We sent it to an expert.<\/p>\n<p>All eight family members now assemble around the boardroom table to learn the expert\u2019s opinion. The family elect me to read out the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ceramic urn is African. When the rim chipped centuries ago, someone fitted a silver collar which helped preserve it. In our estimation, it is at least 500 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the same age as Granddad!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granddad smiles, displaying his fangs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Barry O&#8217;Farrell <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarryO_Tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Barry O&#8217;Farrell<\/a> is an actor living in Brisbane, Australia. Barry&#8217;s other stories have appeared in Cyclamens &#038; Swords, 50 Word Stories and of course here at A Story in 100 Words.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We own a precious family heirloom; a ceramic urn. Well, it may be precious in the sense of sentimental value but we would like to know more about it. We sent it to an expert. All eight family members now assemble around the boardroom table to learn the expert\u2019s opinion. The family elect me to [&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":[3718,2978,3419,3716,3714,614,3720,3719,41,3712,3715,3713,3221,3717],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-african","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-boardroom","tag-ceramic","tag-expert","tag-family","tag-fangs","tag-granddad","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heirloom","tag-opinion","tag-precious","tag-table","tag-urn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","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=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}