{"id":2936,"date":"2017-11-18T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T18:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2017-11-18T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T18:10:35","slug":"nothing-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/11\/18\/nothing-to-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing To Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tim pressed his foot to the accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, moron, you\u2019re all over the road,\u201d yelled the man in the next lane.<\/p>\n<p>Tim screamed and threw his beer bottle at the car. He lost his job, his wife and just found out he had terminal cancer. He continued swerving, cars honking, until his eyes blurred and his head ached. Inebriated and driving recklessly, he crashed into a tree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh My God!\u201d yelled a jogger passing on the dirt path. \u201cAre you okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim moaned before answering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll never be okay again.\u201d He backed up and drove away, leaving the woman dumbfounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim pressed his foot to the accelerator. \u201cHey, moron, you\u2019re all over the road,\u201d yelled the man in the next lane. Tim screamed and threw his beer bottle at the car. He lost his job, his wife and just found out he had terminal cancer. He continued swerving, cars honking, until his eyes blurred and [&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":[6565,6567,1814,1417,6570,6571,2940,108,41,3766,589,6569,3442,5521,215,6566,2907,1717,6568,258,153,2382],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-accelerator","tag-beer-bottle","tag-car","tag-cars","tag-dirt-path","tag-dumbfounded","tag-foot","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-head","tag-job","tag-jogger","tag-lane","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-man","tag-moron","tag-nothing","tag-road","tag-terminal-cancer","tag-tree","tag-wife","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","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=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}