{"id":2932,"date":"2017-11-15T22:50:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T05:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2017-11-15T22:50:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T05:50:17","slug":"salt-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/11\/15\/salt-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Of The Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ian sits supping his pint, jotting down some verses in his notebook, his Sylvia Plath\u2019s Collected Poems at his side.<\/p>\n<p>A mother and two twenty-something daughters take the next table. The menfolk, the husband and the boyfriends, arrive with the drinks.<\/p>\n<p>They notice him briefly and he senses the usual smirks and rolling eyes.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s soon forgotten as they immerse themselves in their hearty little world.<\/p>\n<p>The men have large practical hands. Eavesdropping, Ian learns that the daughters are in sales and retail, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Salt of the earth\u2019 he thinks sardonically, thanking God for poets and tortured souls everywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian sits supping his pint, jotting down some verses in his notebook, his Sylvia Plath\u2019s Collected Poems at his side. A mother and two twenty-something daughters take the next table. The menfolk, the husband and the boyfriends, arrive with the drinks. They notice him briefly and he senses the usual smirks and rolling eyes. But [&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":[6554,6164,4298,269,108,41,2927,1285,4773,6553,73,3515,4916,4730,6558,6557,6556,6551,6555,6552,3221,6559,6550,3880],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-boyfriends","tag-daughters","tag-drinks","tag-earth","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hands","tag-husband","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-menfolk","tag-mother","tag-notebook","tag-pint","tag-poems","tag-poets","tag-retail","tag-sales","tag-salt","tag-smirks","tag-sylvia-plath","tag-table","tag-tortured-soul","tag-verses","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}