{"id":2825,"date":"2017-08-16T19:22:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2017-08-16T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:23:36","slug":"clothesline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/08\/16\/clothesline\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothesline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cSomething landed in our yard,\u201d I announced.<\/p>\n<p>Harold unlocked the backdoor, glanced around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoftball,\u201d he hollered. \u201cNext door thugs peering over our fence.<br \/>\nUndies on their clothesline again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m cooking. How about returning the ball?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNope. They know where it is,\u201d Harold grumbled holding a newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>When the doorbell rang, he answered. Two boys asked permission to<br \/>\nretrieve their ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNice kids. Better than the previous neighbors. Remember, they hung<br \/>\nsheets on that silly clothesline to avoid talking with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked out the kitchen window.<\/p>\n<p>Our neighbor had taken down the underwear. Sheets strung the length of<br \/>\nthe clothesline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomething landed in our yard,\u201d I announced. Harold unlocked the backdoor, glanced around. \u201cSoftball,\u201d he hollered. \u201cNext door thugs peering over our fence. Undies on their clothesline again.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m cooking. How about returning the ball?\u201d \u201cNope. They know where it is,\u201d Harold grumbled holding a newspaper. When the doorbell rang, he answered. Two boys asked [&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":[6278,3233,1355,6277,3665,2895,41,1221,3224,3426,3162,1725,6280,6283,6284,6279,6281,6282,3621],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-backdoor","tag-ball","tag-boys","tag-clothesline","tag-doorbell","tag-fence","tag-guest-contributor","tag-kids","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-neighbor","tag-neighbors","tag-newspaper","tag-next-door","tag-permission","tag-sheets","tag-softball","tag-thugs","tag-undies","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","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=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}