{"id":1914,"date":"2015-07-14T01:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2015-07-14T01:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:31:13","slug":"they-worked-together-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/07\/14\/they-worked-together-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"They Worked Together, In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Most people are Virgos &#8211; know why?&#8221; I do. Nine months before September is commonly cold; nowhere to go but bed. The I.T. guy thinks he\u2019s flirting but now I\u2019m just picturing my parents.<\/p>\n<p>We are so many, they economize. One cake only &#8211; sheet, naturally &#8211; with plastic balloons and red and blue frosting. Children\u2019s cake. We begin to reveal our birth dates around the break room, and I fade away.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the liquor store clerk pity-frowns at my I.D.  &#8220;Man,\u201d he says, \u201cbet your birthday sucks.\u201d I got nothing to add, except at least I\u2019m around to celebrate it.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>From Guest Contributor Vera Duffy<\/p>\n<p>Vera is a semi-retired Mexican wrestler living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Puppet Terror magazine and the L.A. Alternative Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most people are Virgos &#8211; know why?&#8221; I do. Nine months before September is commonly cold; nowhere to go but bed. The I.T. guy thinks he\u2019s flirting but now I\u2019m just picturing my parents. We are so many, they economize. One cake only &#8211; sheet, naturally &#8211; with plastic balloons and red and blue frosting. [&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":[1365,2501,3467,3807,3809,113,3157,2692,3806,3808,41,1784,3805,3055,649,3804,3802,3803],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-balloons","tag-bed","tag-birthday","tag-cake","tag-celebrate","tag-children","tag-clerk","tag-cold","tag-flirting","tag-frosting","tag-guest-contributor","tag-id","tag-it","tag-liquor-store","tag-parents","tag-september","tag-vera-duffy","tag-virgos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","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=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}