{"id":2810,"date":"2017-08-03T18:53:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2017-08-03T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T01:53:18","slug":"loner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/08\/03\/loner\/","title":{"rendered":"Loner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Worst thing about having a drunken Da who pissed people off was that Malachy tended to suffer from \u2018trickle-down\u2019 syndrome: friendships nurtured in his own child-like manner evaporating as parents infected would-be playmates with their contempt for his father.<\/p>\n<p>He crouched over the little burn on farmland close to his suburban home watching the tadpoles emerge from frogspawn, eager to claim a hopper for his very own.<\/p>\n<p>There was a sizeable puddle in his backyard courtesy of poor drainage.<\/p>\n<p>The leprous ache inside expanded to form tundra.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was quiet, and the symphony of wind and wildlife was wonderful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worst thing about having a drunken Da who pissed people off was that Malachy tended to suffer from \u2018trickle-down\u2019 syndrome: friendships nurtured in his own child-like manner evaporating as parents infected would-be playmates with their contempt for his father. He crouched over the little burn on farmland close to his suburban home watching the tadpoles [&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":[6234,3074,4550,2057,6226,6233,1331,2574,1350,5770,6230,41,134,6231,6225,649,3041,6228,6232,4919,1532,6227,6229,6235,6236,275,6237],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ache","tag-backyard","tag-burn","tag-contempt","tag-da","tag-drainage","tag-drunk","tag-farmland","tag-father","tag-friendships","tag-frogspawn","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-hopper","tag-loner","tag-parents","tag-perry-mcdaid","tag-playmates","tag-puddle","tag-suburbs","tag-symphony","tag-syndrome","tag-tadpoles","tag-tundra","tag-wildlife","tag-wind","tag-wonderful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","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=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}