{"id":2365,"date":"2016-06-24T21:34:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T04:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2016-06-24T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T04:34:44","slug":"old-flame-at-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/06\/24\/old-flame-at-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Flame At A Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cLong time no see,\u201d she says tipsily, introducing me to a \u2018Rick.\u2019 There\u2019s tension between them, something\u2019s not quite right.<\/p>\n<p>Though remaining a looker, she doesn\u2019t turn heads anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I was too dull for her then, with my monogamy, my love of poetry. Chatting, I mention I still like T.S. Eliot, and have a family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, settled down, have we?\u201d she says, her tongue as sharp as ever, yet I sense an envy beneath the sarcasm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, <em>I\u2019m not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be<\/em>,\u201d I quote, a certain satisfaction in my self-deprecation, when bidding these lost souls goodnight.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom 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, Friday Flash Fiction, 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>\u201cLong time no see,\u201d she says tipsily, introducing me to a \u2018Rick.\u2019 There\u2019s tension between them, something\u2019s not quite right. Though remaining a looker, she doesn\u2019t turn heads anymore. I was too dull for her then, with my monogamy, my love of poetry. Chatting, I mention I still like T.S. Eliot, and have a family. [&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":[5013,614,5011,5018,41,3512,4773,5010,5014,4731,2699,5016,5019,5017,2718,5015,5012,3370],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-dull","tag-family","tag-flame","tag-goodnight","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hamlet","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-looker","tag-monogamy","tag-poetry","tag-prince","tag-sarcasm","tag-satisfaction","tag-self-deprecation","tag-souls","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-tension","tag-tongue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","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=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}