{"id":3588,"date":"2019-07-25T21:20:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2019-07-26T18:40:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T01:40:59","slug":"firstborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/07\/25\/firstborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Firstborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The soon to be father entered the delivery room wearing a hastily tied paper gown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re just in time, Dad. We\u2019re about to have a baby,\u201d the doctor said. A large set of forceps flashed before vanishing behind the curtain. \u201cOkay Mom, one more good push.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mom screamed while attempting to crush her husband\u2019s hand. After a smack on the rear, the newborn sucked in its first breath and wailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations, you have a baby girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tears of joy filled mom\u2019s eyes as her daughter was placed into her arms, and she said with concern, \u201cShe looks like an alien.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Eddie D. Moore <\/p>\n<p>Eddie travels hundreds of hours a year, and he fills that time by listening to audiobooks. When he isn\u2019t playing with his grandchildren, he writes his own stories. His stories have been published by Kzine, Alien Dimensions, Black Hare Press, Nomadic Delirium Press, Fantasia Divinity Publishing and by dozens of online publishers. You can find a list of his publications on his blog, eddiedmoore.wordpress.com, or by visiting his Amazon Author Page, amazon.com\/author\/eddiedmoore. While you\u2019re there, be sure to pick up a copy of his mini-anthology Misfits &#038; Oddities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soon to be father entered the delivery room wearing a hastily tied paper gown. \u201cYou\u2019re just in time, Dad. We\u2019re about to have a baby,\u201d the doctor said. A large set of forceps flashed before vanishing behind the curtain. \u201cOkay Mom, one more good push.\u201d Mom screamed while attempting to crush her husband\u2019s hand. [&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":[2716,758,2520,6089,1024,1352,8042,8047,1350,8041,8043,1107,4887,41,1285,1023,8045,8044,6417,1323,8046],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alien","tag-baby","tag-breath","tag-curtain","tag-dad","tag-daughter","tag-delivery-room","tag-eddie-d-moore","tag-father","tag-firstborn","tag-forceps","tag-girl","tag-gown","tag-guest-contributor","tag-husband","tag-mom","tag-newborn","tag-rear","tag-smack","tag-tears","tag-tears-of-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","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=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}