{"id":2520,"date":"2016-10-13T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2016-10-14T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T21:13:35","slug":"arm-in-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/10\/13\/arm-in-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Arm In Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Her spindly hand with purple veins protruding forms a tight grasp around the rigid arm.  She had a history with this arm, often leaning against it to maintain her balance.  It had been a steady companion over the last several years, which was more than she could say about her children.  They never approved of their mother\u2019s new company.  A cigarette always hung from her overly wrinkled lips when the two were together, and the last thing she needed was another vice.  It\u2019s their loss, she shrugged and gave a tug on that trusty metal arm, waiting for three sevens.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Nicholas Froumis<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas practices optometry in the Bay Area. His writing has appeared in Gravel, Right Hand Pointing, Dime Show Review, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art &#038; Healing, Ground Fresh Thursday, Balloons Lit Journal, and Short Tale 100. He lives in San Jose, CA with his wife, novelist Stacy Froumis, and their daughter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her spindly hand with purple veins protruding forms a tight grasp around the rigid arm. She had a history with this arm, often leaning against it to maintain her balance. It had been a steady companion over the last several years, which was more than she could say about her children. They never approved of [&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":[4042,113,1820,1715,341,5459,41,1621,4083,73,5458,3311,5462,2468,5461,5460],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-balance","tag-children","tag-cigarette","tag-companion","tag-company","tag-grasp","tag-guest-contributor","tag-history","tag-jackpot","tag-mother","tag-nicholas-froumis","tag-purple","tag-slot-machine","tag-veins","tag-vice","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}