{"id":2972,"date":"2017-12-15T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2017-12-15T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:03:54","slug":"last-minute-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/12\/15\/last-minute-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-Minute Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWrapping paper! Ha, ha!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shoppers passed by clutching rolls of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFancy spending Christmas Eve wrapping presents!\u201d Ian thought, reflecting on how he\u2019d finished his yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy God, they\u2019re fighting over chocolates,\u201d he sneered, observing a couple of housewives tugging the ends of a Milk Tray box in Howell\u2019s Department Store.<\/p>\n<p>He resolved to have a latte in Starbucks to fully savour the spectacle before the shops finally closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChocolates?!&#8230;Christ, I forgot the wife\u2019s chocolates!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ian rushed out of the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the hell can I find some now?\u201d he thought, seeing the doors of Howell\u2019s snap shut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWrapping paper! Ha, ha!\u201d Shoppers passed by clutching rolls of it. \u201cFancy spending Christmas Eve wrapping presents!\u201d Ian thought, reflecting on how he\u2019d finished his yesterday. \u201cMy God, they\u2019re fighting over chocolates,\u201d he sneered, observing a couple of housewives tugging the ends of a Milk Tray box in Howell\u2019s Department Store. He resolved to have [&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":[3099,4780,3997,4845,5688,3851,3942,108,41,332,4773,6325,6646,4351,6645,4490,6647,511,153,4352,5020],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-box","tag-cafe","tag-chocolates","tag-christ","tag-christmas-eve","tag-department-store","tag-doors","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hell","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-latte","tag-milk-tray","tag-presents","tag-shoppers","tag-shops","tag-spectacle","tag-starbucks","tag-wife","tag-wrapping-paper","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","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=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}