{"id":2929,"date":"2017-11-13T19:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2017-11-15T22:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T05:50:31","slug":"hope-and-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/11\/13\/hope-and-the-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope And The Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Face down in pine-needles, Tom could hear rustling undergrowth.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t such disturbance of leaf and stalk that might herald the man\u2019s return, but more woodlandy \u2013 some creature curious about the blood&#8230;his blood.<\/p>\n<p>Gauging the effort required, he summoned what energy remained and thrust.<\/p>\n<p>His right arm collapsed, the incline rolling him onto his back.<\/p>\n<p>The unobstructed air was invigorating. He\u2019d never appreciated that before. He coughed half way through a breath, spluttering blood.<\/p>\n<p>He managed to avoid choking. He might just survive\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Now he could see the man hadn\u2019t left at all.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter raised the gun again.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face down in pine-needles, Tom could hear rustling undergrowth. It wasn\u2019t such disturbance of leaf and stalk that might herald the man\u2019s return, but more woodlandy \u2013 some creature curious about the blood&#8230;his blood. Gauging the effort required, he summoned what energy remained and thrust. His right arm collapsed, the incline rolling him onto his [&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":[4652,2135,281,2520,4622,6541,6547,290,41,656,6544,6548,6542,3041,6539,6545,6549,6543,6540,6546],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-arm","tag-blood","tag-breath","tag-creature","tag-disturbance","tag-effort","tag-energy","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gun","tag-herald","tag-incline","tag-leaf","tag-perry-mcdaid","tag-pine-needles","tag-return","tag-shooter","tag-stalk","tag-undergrowth","tag-woodland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","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=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}