{"id":3106,"date":"2018-04-27T19:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T02:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2018-04-27T19:34:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T02:34:50","slug":"the-way-the-world-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/04\/27\/the-way-the-world-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way The World Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At first I thought it was a barrel of whiskey strapped to the back of the gangly old man, stooping him over to half in the parking lot. Snow swirled in orange light clouds. As he shuffled closer, I realized it was an egg, yellowish, enormous, bound with dirty ropes. There were scratches on it as long as my arm, and I wondered whether they came from the inside or the outside. I loaded the groceries into the car and pushed my cart at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not how it works,\u201d he muttered, head down. \u201cI have to carry it myself.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Brook Bhagat<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first I thought it was a barrel of whiskey strapped to the back of the gangly old man, stooping him over to half in the parking lot. Snow swirled in orange light clouds. As he shuffled closer, I realized it was an egg, yellowish, enormous, bound with dirty ropes. There were scratches on it [&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":[2135,6961,4499,1814,2790,1060,2664,6966,41,6962,3766,6965,1699,2928,3584,6963,6964,3149,1458,3880],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arm","tag-barrel","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-car","tag-cart","tag-clouds","tag-egg","tag-groceries","tag-guest-contributor","tag-half","tag-head","tag-inside","tag-old-man","tag-outside","tag-parking-lot","tag-ropes","tag-scratches","tag-snow","tag-whiskey","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","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=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}