{"id":3018,"date":"2018-01-19T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T02:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2018-01-22T20:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T03:16:14","slug":"old-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/01\/19\/old-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A haggard creature across the bar clutches her G&#038;T with claw-like hands.<\/p>\n<p>The aquiline nose stands out from the sunken skin, triggering a disconcerting recognition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be,\u201d he thinks.<\/p>\n<p>Sensing his gaze, the woman looks over.<\/p>\n<p>The shiny dome where once was hair, the double chin, the beer paunch, are a disturbing parody of the man she\u2019d known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLawrence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d been passionate lovers a generation ago.<\/p>\n<p>Overcoming mutual revulsion, they chat a while, no chemistry between them now.<\/p>\n<p>The only chemical they have in common is the alcohol anesthetizing them until they go their separate ways into the night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A haggard creature across the bar clutches her G&#038;T with claw-like hands. The aquiline nose stands out from the sunken skin, triggering a disconcerting recognition. \u201cIt can\u2019t be,\u201d he thinks. Sensing his gaze, the woman looks over. The shiny dome where once was hair, the double chin, the beer paunch, are a disturbing parody of [&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":[1748,214,5091,6753,6746,4622,6748,6749,4372,6745,41,1291,2927,4773,5632,2665,2211,6744,6751,6750,6747,6752,6754,2014],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alcohol","tag-bar","tag-chemical","tag-chemistry","tag-claw","tag-creature","tag-dome","tag-double-chin","tag-generation","tag-gin-and-tonic","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-hands","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-lovers","tag-night","tag-nose","tag-old-flames","tag-parody","tag-paunch","tag-recognition","tag-revulsion","tag-separate-ways","tag-skin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","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=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}