{"id":2651,"date":"2017-01-31T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:47:28","slug":"comfortable-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/01\/31\/comfortable-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfortable Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tim read his sister\u2019s winning entry through, comparing it with listed runners-up. He reflected on the superficial ditties with which building society advertisements were enamoured to the point of misidentification as poetry. Perhaps that ill-timed reflection jaded him, for he was not gentle with his critique of Martha\u2019s literary infant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Ill-conceived twaddle\u2019?\u201d She snatched away her manuscript and lunged melodramatically from the chair.<\/p>\n<p>Tim guffawed as the histrionics caused her to jar against the table, but recovered. \u201cLook, you can\u2019t exhale against a corset, whale-bone or otherwise. The rib-cage contracts to exhale, expands to inhale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martha cashed the cheque anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim read his sister\u2019s winning entry through, comparing it with listed runners-up. He reflected on the superficial ditties with which building society advertisements were enamoured to the point of misidentification as poetry. Perhaps that ill-timed reflection jaded him, for he was not gentle with his critique of Martha\u2019s literary infant. \u201c\u2019Ill-conceived twaddle\u2019?\u201d She snatched away [&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":[5819,5827,5825,5821,5818,5817,41,5824,5816,2181,5820,5823,3041,4731,3476,5826,4882,548,654,3221,5822],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-advertisements","tag-cheque","tag-corset","tag-critique","tag-ditties","tag-entry","tag-guest-contributor","tag-histrionics","tag-ignorance","tag-infant","tag-jaded","tag-manuscript","tag-perry-mcdaid","tag-poetry","tag-reflection","tag-rib-cage","tag-runner-up","tag-sister","tag-society","tag-table","tag-twaddle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}