{"id":3146,"date":"2018-06-08T17:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T00:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2018-06-11T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T23:58:56","slug":"the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/06\/08\/the-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWatta you gonna do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d   It was getting dark. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could run away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere would I go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat far?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t speak Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen just give it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already spent it on candy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His friend thought about that.  \u201cCan I have some?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ate it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After watching the traffic at the intersection for a while, the boy\u2019s friend got up.  \u201cI can\u2019t go to California,\u201d he said apologetically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not allowed to cross the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d the little boy still sitting on the curb admitted, \u201cme neither.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanblasiar.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Blasiar<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWatta you gonna do?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d It was getting dark. \u201cYou could run away.\u201d \u201cWhere would I go?\u201d \u201cCalifornia?\u201d \u201cThat far?\u201d \u201cOr Mexico.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t speak Spanish.\u201d \u201cThen just give it back.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d \u201cWhy not?\u201d \u201cI already spent it on candy.\u201d His friend thought about that. \u201cCan I have some?\u201d \u201cI ate 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":[250,105,1475,3893,2905,1853,4727,41,2281,3840,383,4277,2513],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-boy","tag-california","tag-candy","tag-change","tag-curb","tag-dark","tag-friend","tag-guest-contributor","tag-intersection","tag-jean-blasiar","tag-mexico","tag-spanish","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}