{"id":2510,"date":"2016-10-04T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2016-10-04T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:10:29","slug":"running-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/10\/04\/running-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I stroll around the park, mulling over my next 100-word story.<\/p>\n<p>A scrawny bald man hurtles towards me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIan?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBill?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c10K training, 8 laps of the park &#8211; my 99th half-marathon\u2019s on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut no full marathons now after my knee surgeries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, impact injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Divorced, kids grown up, running has been the constant in his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill running, Ian?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust jogging and some yoga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet back into it!\u201d he says fervently.<\/p>\n<p>Telling me his Facebook address he sprints off.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving the park, I watch him running around in circles, the perfect subject for my story.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, Ian has an MA in English from Oxford University. He has had poems and short stories published in Schlock! Webzine, 1947 A Literary Journal, Dead Snakes, Short-story.me, Anotherealm, Under the Bed, A Story In 100 Words, Poems and Poetry, Friday Flash Fiction, and in various anthologies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stroll around the park, mulling over my next 100-word story. A scrawny bald man hurtles towards me. \u201cIan?\u201d \u201cBill?\u201d He stops. \u201c10K training, 8 laps of the park &#8211; my 99th half-marathon\u2019s on Sunday.\u201d \u201cWow!\u201d \u201cBut no full marathons now after my knee surgeries.\u201d \u201cReally?\u201d \u201cYeah, impact injuries.\u201d Divorced, kids grown up, running has [&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":[1869,5424,5423,2662,2869,5431,1544,41,5223,4773,4999,5428,5429,1221,5427,5425,5426,1543,1692,1407,2697,5432,3114,2078,5430],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-100-word-story","tag-10k","tag-bald","tag-circles","tag-divorce","tag-facebook","tag-flash-fiction","tag-guest-contributor","tag-half-marathon","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-impact","tag-injuries","tag-jogging","tag-kids","tag-knee-surgery","tag-laps","tag-marathon","tag-microfiction","tag-park","tag-running","tag-story","tag-subject","tag-sunday","tag-training","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","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=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}