{"id":2326,"date":"2016-05-31T19:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2016-06-01T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T05:06:39","slug":"bumping-into-an-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/05\/31\/bumping-into-an-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumping Into An Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Like a beacon of an unkind fate the bald pate shines where his pink Mohawk once grew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPunk\u2019s not dead,\u201d he drools, the two pints of Heineken having gone to his head, when back in the day it would have taken five, or eight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, the spirit lives on,\u201d I lie to this ghost from my past sitting alone in the bar without any hope of a date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother pint?\u201d the zombie asks, but I don\u2019t hesitate with the well, it\u2019s getting late, been nice to catch up, thanking God for boring suburbs, wife and kids, the nine to five.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/p>\n<p>Ian studied English Literature at Oxford University many years ago. He has had short stories published in various genres in Schlock! Webzine, Schlock! Bi-Monthly, Short-story.me, Anotherealm, Under the Bed, A Story In 100 Words, and in anthologies by Horrified Press and Rogue Planet Press. He is an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a beacon of an unkind fate the bald pate shines where his pink Mohawk once grew. \u201cPunk\u2019s not dead,\u201d he drools, the two pints of Heineken having gone to his head, when back in the day it would have taken five, or eight. \u201cYeah, the spirit lives on,\u201d I lie to this ghost from [&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":[4920,299,4915,4727,68,108,41,4917,4773,1221,1515,4916,4914,3781,4919,153,4918],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-boring","tag-date","tag-drool","tag-friend","tag-ghost","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heineken","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-kids","tag-past","tag-pint","tag-punk","tag-spirit","tag-suburbs","tag-wife","tag-zombie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","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=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}