{"id":3387,"date":"2019-01-07T12:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2019-01-07T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:49:03","slug":"something-gained-something-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/01\/07\/something-gained-something-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Gained, Something Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>She took a long drag on her cigarette before crushing it out in the ashtray. Then she opened the drawer to her bedside locker and said: Okay, young man, the world\u2019s your oyster. Take your pick.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Apart from the shelves of the drugstore, I&#8217;d never seen so many condoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> If it&#8217;s all the same with you, I said, I&#8217;ll choose the red one. I like red.<br> She smiled again and said: Suit yourself, Baby.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I briefly wondered whether I should ask her to marry me. I didn\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barely five minutes after that, I left with no money and no virginity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Henry Bladon<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She took a long drag on her cigarette before crushing it out in the ashtray. Then she opened the drawer to her bedside locker and said: Okay, young man, the world\u2019s your oyster. Take your pick. Apart from the shelves of the drugstore, I&#8217;d never seen so many condoms. If it&#8217;s all the same with [&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":[5273,758,1820,7567,6686,7563,7566,41,7562,5441,590,7564,7565,3936,7216,3509,3880,6619],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ashtray","tag-baby","tag-cigarette","tag-condoms","tag-drag","tag-drawer","tag-drugstore","tag-guest-contributor","tag-henry-bladon","tag-locker","tag-money","tag-oyster","tag-pick","tag-shelves","tag-the-same","tag-virginity","tag-world","tag-young-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","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=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}