{"id":2648,"date":"2017-01-30T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:48:24","slug":"play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/01\/30\/play\/","title":{"rendered":"Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bobby carted the bin out by the hose and sighed.<\/p>\n<p>This would take a while.<\/p>\n<p>He started loading water guns, blasters, soakers, super soakers, water cannons, squirt guns, water pistols, pump-action blasters, pressurized water guns, and dual water blasters. Then he filled water balloons. What good soldier would go into battle without grenades?<\/p>\n<p>He plugged every aperture, dumped his arsenal in the boat, surveyed the other canoes. Bobby hopped in, skimmed his hand across a super soaker. He imagined the jetting stream\u2013-its range, accuracy. He envisioned drenched shirts and squealing.<\/p>\n<p>No one would find this enjoyable, he cackled, no one.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Joseph S. Pete<\/p>\n<p>Joseph is an Iraq War veteran, an award-winning journalist, an Indiana University graduate, a book reviewer, and a frequent guest on his local NPR affiliate. He was named the poet laureate of Chicago BaconFest 2016, a feat that Geoffrey Chaucer chump never accomplished. His work has appeared in Chicago Literati, Dogzplot, shufPoetry, The Roaring Muse, Fictitious, The Blue Collar Review, The Five-Two, Lumpen, McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency, Pour Vida, Pulp Modern, Zero Dark Thirty and elsewhere. He once Googled the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop. True story, believe it or not.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby carted the bin out by the hose and sighed. This would take a while. He started loading water guns, blasters, soakers, super soakers, water cannons, squirt guns, water pistols, pump-action blasters, pressurized water guns, and dual water blasters. Then he filled water balloons. What good soldier would go into battle without grenades? He plugged [&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":[5815,5809,5810,2119,5799,5802,1460,5811,5808,41,5800,5798,5814,5812,3438,5803,2166,5813,4038,5804,5807,5805,5801,5806],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-accuracy","tag-aperture","tag-arsenal","tag-battle","tag-bin","tag-blasters","tag-boat","tag-canoes","tag-grenades","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hose","tag-joseph-s-pete","tag-range","tag-shirts","tag-sigh","tag-soakers","tag-soldier","tag-squealing","tag-stream","tag-super-soakers","tag-water-balloons","tag-water-cannons","tag-water-guns","tag-water-pistols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","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=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}