{"id":3362,"date":"2018-12-12T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T03:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2018-12-12T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T03:18:29","slug":"reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/12\/12\/reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>He sat alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He watched her scrape the painted letters from the window; watched FINE ARTS CAFE become FINE ART, then FINE and finally FIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>She took a break.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He couldn\u2019t bear to watch anymore anyway, imagined Painting becoming mere Paint, then Pain; Lessons, Less.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Having finished his coffee, he talked to the caf\u00e9 owner about her plans now that she\u2019d finally served up her last cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He knew he\u2019d go soon too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He mentally counted out the other empty storefronts, some of the buildings invisible from where he sat, their windows staring out at a rapidly fading Main Street.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ron. Lavalette<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He sat alone. He watched her scrape the painted letters from the window; watched FINE ARTS CAFE become FINE ART, then FINE and finally FIN. She took a break. He couldn\u2019t bear to watch anymore anyway, imagined Painting becoming mere Paint, then Pain; Lessons, Less. Having finished his coffee, he talked to the caf\u00e9 owner [&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":[6524,3907,4780,7499,2439,3704,7496,41,7074,3284,175,3002,1504,2861,2724,6038,7495,7494,7500,1841,2754],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-break","tag-buildings","tag-cafe","tag-cafe-2","tag-coffee","tag-cup","tag-fine-arts","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lessons","tag-letters","tag-main-street","tag-owner","tag-pain","tag-paint","tag-painting","tag-plans","tag-reduction","tag-ron-lavalette","tag-storefronts","tag-window","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","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=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}