{"id":2102,"date":"2015-12-08T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2015-12-10T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T04:43:27","slug":"christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/12\/08\/christmas-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My eccentric aunt sits in front of a stack of approximately one hundred Christmas cards, freshly signed, sealed and stamped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay I help? Let me mail them for you,\u201d I offer.<\/p>\n<p>I grab a plastic bag. As I manoeuvre cards into the open bag, about one third fall to the floor. I kneel down to scoop them up.<\/p>\n<p>She begins to wail. \u201cDon\u2019t you realize, I spent forty minutes sorting them into fashionable zip code order?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is there any point in explaining they will become part of the greater mass once dropped through the chute at the Central Post Office?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Barry O&#8217;Farrell<\/p>\n<p>Barry is an actor who sometimes writes, living in Brisbane, Australia. Barry&#8217;s stories can be found at Cyclamens &#038; Swords, 101 Words, The Flash Fiction Press and here at A Story In 100 Words. One of Barry&#8217;s stories was runner up in the recent Arts Alliance competition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My eccentric aunt sits in front of a stack of approximately one hundred Christmas cards, freshly signed, sealed and stamped. \u201cMay I help? Let me mail them for you,\u201d I offer. I grab a plastic bag. As I manoeuvre cards into the open bag, about one third fall to the floor. I kneel down 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":[4324,2978,4322,42,4325,3309,4323,2132,4326],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aunt","tag-barry-ofarrell","tag-cards","tag-christmas","tag-chute","tag-floor","tag-plastic-bag","tag-post-office","tag-stamps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}