{"id":2677,"date":"2017-02-16T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2017-02-17T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:17:06","slug":"supermarket-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/02\/16\/supermarket-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermarket Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesdays, post-second shift, bone-marrow tired, Kyra grocery-shopped. To stay alert, she categorized customers, itemized their purchases.<\/p>\n<p>First: class, marital status, number of kids, happiness level. Pony-tailed woman opposite Kyra? Pinching pants tight in the crotch? Must be married ten years; barely making do managing odd-lots store; two sucrose-loving preteens; miserable as a mutt, minus flea collar, August.<\/p>\n<p>Cart contents: Pony tail and family down waffles, wings, PB &#038; J, rolls, store-brand sherbet, Bud, Coke.<\/p>\n<p>Kyra\u2019d be sad, eating that.<\/p>\n<p>Pulled leggings, smoothed hair. Double-take: her mirrored reflection! She\u2019d best snap out of this, load check-out counter. Be on her way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Iris N. Schwartz<\/p>\n<p>Iris is a fiction and nonfiction writer, as well as a Pushcart-Prize-nominated poet. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in such journals as Bindweed Magazine, Connotation Press, The Flash Fiction Press, Jellyfish Review, Quail Bell Magazine, and Random Sample Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesdays, post-second shift, bone-marrow tired, Kyra grocery-shopped. To stay alert, she categorized customers, itemized their purchases. First: class, marital status, number of kids, happiness level. Pony-tailed woman opposite Kyra? Pinching pants tight in the crotch? Must be married ten years; barely making do managing odd-lots store; two sucrose-loving preteens; miserable as a mutt, minus flea [&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":[5881,4151,5892,2790,5292,5893,5328,5885,2112,5887,5880,41,2779,5878,1221,5894,5883,1642,1347,5888,2156,5889,5884,5886,5882,3476,5890,3631,5891,2264,1044,3271,4922,5879,2361],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alert","tag-august","tag-bud","tag-cart","tag-class","tag-coke","tag-counter","tag-crotch","tag-customers","tag-flea-collar","tag-grocery-shopping","tag-guest-contributor","tag-happiness","tag-iris-n-schwartz","tag-kids","tag-leggings","tag-marital-status","tag-married","tag-mirror","tag-mutt","tag-pants","tag-pbj","tag-pony-tail","tag-preteens","tag-purchases","tag-reflection","tag-rolls","tag-sad","tag-sherbert","tag-shift","tag-sleep","tag-store","tag-supermarket","tag-wednesday","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","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=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}