{"id":2354,"date":"2016-06-18T18:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2016-06-18T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:33:31","slug":"the-enigmatic-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/06\/18\/the-enigmatic-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enigmatic Dot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Inquisitively, her eyes narrowed as she attempted to see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t get it!\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a blank sheet of paper with a small black dot on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carl showed it to others. Mike held it up against the light. Tom ran his fingers over it. His teacher unequivocally dismissed it as balderdash and several online friends expressed how deeply offended they had all been by its very concept.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that no-one else could see it seemed strange to Carl.<\/p>\n<p>To him, it was simply a small black dot with a blank sheet of paper on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor JR Hampton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquisitively, her eyes narrowed as she attempted to see it. \u201cI don\u2019t get it!\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a blank sheet of paper with a small black dot on it.\u201d Carl showed it to others. Mike held it up against the light. Tom ran his fingers over it. His teacher unequivocally dismissed it as balderdash [&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":[4996,2983,4997,4995,41,4355,1230,2069,3456,648],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-balderdash","tag-blank","tag-concept","tag-dot","tag-guest-contributor","tag-jr-hampton","tag-light","tag-offended","tag-paper","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","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=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}