{"id":3547,"date":"2019-06-13T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2019-06-14T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T22:27:11","slug":"in-the-spirit-of-amusement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/06\/13\/in-the-spirit-of-amusement\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Spirit Of Amusement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amusement Park. Strange name. Bet there are more unamused adults than young children. Heard Uncle Max scream. Saw him vomit on the Ferris Wheel, again. After he said he couldn\u2019t stomach it. Cousins bashed themselves manoeuvring bumper cars. Their dads were not amused. Neither was the ride operator. Too much cotton candy caused my sweet tooth to sour at the dentist\u2019s. We tried the Swing Carousel. I sat with Dad. The swing in front of us was empty. Would\u2019ve been filled if the father of a toddler didn\u2019t have a tantrum. They relocated at the merry-go-round. I preferred the Pendulum.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She resides in Edmonton, Canada with her husband and stuffed animals and many friends.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amusement Park. Strange name. Bet there are more unamused adults than young children. Heard Uncle Max scream. Saw him vomit on the Ferris Wheel, again. After he said he couldn\u2019t stomach it. Cousins bashed themselves manoeuvring bumper cars. Their dads were not amused. Neither was the ride operator. Too much cotton candy caused my sweet [&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":[7941,4374,7943,5495,113,4029,7942,1024,7944,78,1350,5003,41,3224,7948,5567,1692,7949,7945,3317,3781,7946,5623,7947,2451,6618,2499],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-adults","tag-amusement","tag-bumper-cars","tag-carousel","tag-children","tag-cotton-candy","tag-cousins","tag-dad","tag-dads","tag-dentist","tag-father","tag-ferris-wheel","tag-guest-contributor","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-merry-go-round","tag-name","tag-park","tag-pendulum","tag-ride-operator","tag-scream","tag-spirit","tag-sweet-tooth","tag-swing","tag-tantrum","tag-toddler","tag-uncle","tag-vomit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","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=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}