{"id":2405,"date":"2016-07-18T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T02:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2016-07-18T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T02:02:12","slug":"absent-samaritan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/07\/18\/absent-samaritan\/","title":{"rendered":"Absent Samaritan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He used the lamppost to drag himself to his feet, having groped for the muddy spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp,\u201d he thought he called, clamping the damaged frame to his face to supplement the remaining arm. \u201cI\u2019ve been mugged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he couldn\u2019t have made a noise. Surely the trio who passed would have stopped if he had?<\/p>\n<p>He steadied himself against pain and dizziness and tried to focus his remaining energy into a shout for aid.<\/p>\n<p>He watched through smeared lenses as they faded into the rain: ghosts into oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t be sure they\u2019d heard.<\/p>\n<p>The blood seemed the only irrefutable fact.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He used the lamppost to drag himself to his feet, having groped for the muddy spectacles. \u201cHelp,\u201d he thought he called, clamping the damaged frame to his face to supplement the remaining arm. \u201cI\u2019ve been mugged.\u201d But he couldn\u2019t have made a noise. Surely the trio who passed would have stopped if he had? He [&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":[5124,5128,281,5127,290,5129,2087,4585,545,41,5125,2233,2537,1504,3041,5123,5126],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-absent","tag-aid","tag-blood","tag-dizziness","tag-energy","tag-fact","tag-feet","tag-frame","tag-ghosts","tag-guest-contributor","tag-mugged","tag-noise","tag-oblivion","tag-pain","tag-perry-mcdaid","tag-samaritan","tag-trio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}