{"id":2981,"date":"2017-12-21T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2017-12-22T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:35:48","slug":"wifes-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/12\/21\/wifes-helper\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife&#8217;s Helper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John flipped his wife\u2019s shopping list and reached for the phone in his jacket. No charge.<\/p>\n<p>He caught a nearby shopper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcuse me, what are these,\u201d he pointed to the list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry the seafood counter,\u201d was the reply.<\/p>\n<p>Once there, John asked, \u201cDo you have scal&#8230;?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScallops?\u201d the server interjected. \u201cHalf a pound? They\u2019re pricey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John placed the package into his basket. \u201cWhere do I find this,\u201d he showed the same man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRubber scrapers in kitchen gadgets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When John arrived home, his wife unpacked the bags.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m allergic to shellfish!\u201d she shrilled. \u201cWhere are the scallions<br \/>\nand capers?\u201d<\/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>John flipped his wife\u2019s shopping list and reached for the phone in his jacket. No charge. He caught a nearby shopper. \u201cExcuse me, what are these,\u201d he pointed to the list. \u201cTry the seafood counter,\u201d was the reply. Once there, John asked, \u201cDo you have scal&#8230;?\u201d \u201cScallops?\u201d the server interjected. \u201cHalf a pound? They\u2019re pricey.\u201d [&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":[2399,6670,2477,6673,5328,41,6661,6663,6669,3224,4093,215,6667,3312,6668,6672,6665,6664,6666,6671,3940,6662,153],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-allergic","tag-bags","tag-basket","tag-capers","tag-counter","tag-guest-contributor","tag-helper","tag-jacket","tag-kitchen-gadgets","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-list","tag-man","tag-package","tag-phone","tag-rubber-scraper","tag-scallions","tag-scallops","tag-seafood","tag-server","tag-shellfish","tag-shopper","tag-shopping-list","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","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=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}