{"id":1920,"date":"2015-07-16T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2015-07-16T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:32:14","slug":"cage-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/07\/16\/cage-fighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cage Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Emmet never gets scared. He is a terrifically talented mixed martial artist; flexible, strong, unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>His rise through the rankings has been steady. Probably get a shot at a universally regarded title next year.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity to compete tonight arose unexpectedly when one of the fighters withdrew suddenly, for reasons which were never fully explained.<\/p>\n<p>Emmet took the fight at short notice, no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>As his second I follow him into the cage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m scared,\u201d says Emmet as his opponent, a hideous alien lumbers into the cage. \u201cThe way they spoke, I was expecting to fight another human being.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarryO_Tweet\" target=\"_blank\">Barry O&#8217;Farrell<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Barry is an actor and writer who lives in Brisbane, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Barry&#8217;s other stories may be found 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>Emmet never gets scared. He is a terrifically talented mixed martial artist; flexible, strong, unpredictable. His rise through the rankings has been steady. Probably get a shot at a universally regarded title next year. The opportunity to compete tonight arose unexpectedly when one of the fighters withdrew suddenly, for reasons which were never fully explained. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2716,2978,1095,3823,41,3824,1876,3826,1835,3827,3825],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alien","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-guest-contributor","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-questions","tag-rankings","tag-scared","tag-short-notice","tag-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}