{"id":3158,"date":"2018-06-21T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T21:17:31","slug":"keeping-up-appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/06\/21\/keeping-up-appearances\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up Appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Several seats were open at the bar and I sat next to an elderly lady. &#8220;Don\u2019t forget Michelle\u2019s dinner,&#8221; I thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you do?\u201d the lady asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty well. Just getting home from work. How are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m well, thanks. Where do you work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work as a counselor,\u201d I said. I was a peer counselor but I didn\u2019t want to disclose my diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your focus?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPsychotic disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel so bad for those poor people,\u201d she said as she looked at her glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I dunno, you\u2019d be surprised. Some of them do better than you think.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Steve Colori<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several seats were open at the bar and I sat next to an elderly lady. &#8220;Don\u2019t forget Michelle\u2019s dinner,&#8221; I thought. \u201cHow do you do?\u201d the lady asked. \u201cPretty well. Just getting home from work. How are you?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m well, thanks. Where do you work?\u201d \u201cI work as a counselor,\u201d I said. I was a [&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":[5702,214,2541,3339,338,6247,3919,2133,41,1244,7071,7070,5828,3935,168],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-appearances","tag-bar","tag-counselor","tag-diagnosis","tag-dinner","tag-elderly-lady","tag-focus","tag-glass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-people","tag-psychotic-disorders","tag-seats","tag-steve-colori","tag-surprise","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","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=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}