{"id":2524,"date":"2016-10-17T23:25:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2016-10-18T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T23:56:50","slug":"news-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/10\/17\/news-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"News From Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dearest Melanie,<\/p>\n<p>It pains me to report that my attempt to traverse the Andes has been an immeasurable failure.  My guide, John Trapp, and I were scaling a particularly dubious crag when I felt the compulsion to belt out Tennyson&#8217;s &#8220;Come Into the Garden, Maud.&#8221;  Distracted by my ill-timed warbling, Trapp lost his foothold and fell 2600 feet to his death.  As I watched him descend, I made a game for myself in which I attempted to finish the song before John&#8217;s head exploded on the rubble below.  Sadly, I came 72 bars short.<\/p>\n<p>My love to the girls.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmielRossin\" target=\"_blank\">Amiel Rossin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Melanie, It pains me to report that my attempt to traverse the Andes has been an immeasurable failure. My guide, John Trapp, and I were scaling a particularly dubious crag when I felt the compulsion to belt out Tennyson&#8217;s &#8220;Come Into the Garden, Maud.&#8221; Distracted by my ill-timed warbling, Trapp lost his foothold and [&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":[5471,5472,5473,4498,5476,5475,295,485,956,5479,41,5474,2979,5480,3957,5481,1084,5477,5478],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-abroad","tag-amiel-rossin","tag-andes","tag-bars","tag-compulsion","tag-crag","tag-death","tag-failure","tag-fall","tag-foothold","tag-guest-contributor","tag-john-trapp","tag-letter","tag-mountain-climbing","tag-news","tag-rubble","tag-song","tag-tennyson","tag-warbling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}