{"id":3642,"date":"2019-09-09T20:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2019-09-09T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T03:20:59","slug":"the-stuttering-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/09\/09\/the-stuttering-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stuttering Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;She sells sea shells by the seashore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I practiced &#8217;til my eighteenth birthday.  My last day of stuttering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will ask Betty Montgomery on a date,&#8221;  I told myself.<\/p>\n<p>When I walked onto the beach behind her sea shell stand, I heard her say to her friend, Jill:  &#8220;He&#8217;s such a stuttering fool.&#8221;  She was talking about me.  I couldn&#8217;t ask her but I stayed stutter free.<\/p>\n<p>I bumped into her at the grocery store yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damn, you look good!&#8221;  Time had been good to her too but I couldn&#8217;t tell her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who was that, Pa-Pa?&#8221;  My grandson asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor E. Barnes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She sells sea shells by the seashore.&#8221; I practiced &#8217;til my eighteenth birthday. My last day of stuttering. &#8220;I will ask Betty Montgomery on a date,&#8221; I told myself. When I walked onto the beach behind her sea shell stand, I heard her say to her friend, Jill: &#8220;He&#8217;s such a stuttering fool.&#8221; She was [&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":[2149,3467,299,8092,5505,4727,3784,4796,41,8158,8154,8156,8157,8155,1109],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beach","tag-birthday","tag-date","tag-e-barnes","tag-fool","tag-friend","tag-grandson","tag-grocery-store","tag-guest-contributor","tag-pa-pa","tag-sea-shells","tag-seashore","tag-stand","tag-stutter","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","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=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}