{"id":2440,"date":"2016-08-15T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2016-08-16T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:42:11","slug":"the-do-gooder-from-beyond-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/08\/15\/the-do-gooder-from-beyond-the-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Do-Gooder From Beyond The Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shit! Here he comes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m running for cancer research on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, yeah?\u201d I say looking at the gaunt face, an over-achiever in athletics as well as the office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill you sponsor me? Most are pitching in a pound or two per mile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christ, a fucking half-marathon.<\/p>\n<p>I pledge a pound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks, it\u2019s a good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monday morning. He\u2019s late, he\u2019s never late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad news,\u201d says the boss. \u201cMike collapsed and died after the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen quid saved, I think amidst the office tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suggest we all double our contributions to show respect,\u201d says the boss.<\/p>\n<p>God damn him!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ian has an MA in English from Oxford University. He has had short stories and poems published in Schlock! Webzine, Short-story.me, Anotherealm, Under the Bed, A Story In 100 Words, Friday Flash Fiction, Dead Snakes, 1947 A Literary Journal, and in various anthologies. He is an Affiliate Member of the Horror Writers Association.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shit! Here he comes. \u201cI\u2019m running for cancer research on Sunday.\u201d \u201cOh, yeah?\u201d I say looking at the gaunt face, an over-achiever in athletics as well as the office. \u201cWill you sponsor me? Most are pitching in a pound or two per mile.\u201d Christ, a fucking half-marathon. I pledge a pound. \u201cThanks, it\u2019s a good [&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":[5221,936,5219,5227,4845,2274,5220,41,5223,4773,5224,5226,5225,1089,5222,3114],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-athletics","tag-boss","tag-cancer-research","tag-cause","tag-christ","tag-curse","tag-gaunt","tag-guest-contributor","tag-half-marathon","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-pound","tag-quid","tag-respect","tag-shit","tag-sponsor","tag-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","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=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}