{"id":2384,"date":"2016-07-06T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2016-07-07T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:07:25","slug":"the-hobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/07\/06\/the-hobo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cTake my wedding rings. I don\u2019t use them anymore,\u201d the hobo said to me. <\/p>\n<p>  Zelda and I were outside Tiffany\u2019s, but it was closed. We had just decided to elope. We had arrived at the store too late.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cYou can\u2019t be serious,\u201d I said. \u201cHow much money do you want for them?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  \u201cNone. With my wife dead, I have no use for money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cDon\u2019t you wish to keep the rings anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cNo, you two need them more than me. I still have her picture. Go on. Take them.\u201d He forced the rings into my hand.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThank you very much, sir.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Mark Beddard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTake my wedding rings. I don\u2019t use them anymore,\u201d the hobo said to me. Zelda and I were outside Tiffany\u2019s, but it was closed. We had just decided to elope. We had arrived at the store too late. \u201cYou can\u2019t be serious,\u201d I said. \u201cHow much money do you want for them?\u201d \u201cNone. With my [&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":[999,5045,41,5043,5041,590,4760,1318,3271,5044,5042],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-dead","tag-elope","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hobo","tag-mark-beddard","tag-money","tag-picture","tag-rings","tag-store","tag-tiffanys","tag-wedding-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","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=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}