{"id":3664,"date":"2019-10-03T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2019-10-04T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:55:29","slug":"boss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/10\/03\/boss-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The dog was known as <em>Boss<\/em> by the Belfast housing estate kids. They heard harsh scratching as he desperately tried to crawl away from his tormentor, his muzzle leaving a dark trail of blood from where the first round had hit him in the face. His life trickled away from him through the short grey hairs on his jaw; an occasional desperate snarl ripping apart the cold morning air before he began whimpering again like a child.<\/p>\n<p>Lining up the rifle sight, his tormentor watched the heaving chest, pressed the trigger and the pavement was awash with blood and fur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Bernie Hanvey<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dog was known as Boss by the Belfast housing estate kids. They heard harsh scratching as he desperately tried to crawl away from his tormentor, his muzzle leaving a dark trail of blood from where the first round had hit him in the face. His life trickled away from him through the short grey [&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":[4652,8198,8159,281,936,3258,2870,8200,213,1659,2838,2799,41,7548,6816,1221,2191,2921,7938,4192,2745,5120,8199,4838,4216,8201,6024,4620],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-belfast","tag-bernie-hanvey","tag-blood","tag-boss","tag-chest","tag-child","tag-crawl","tag-dog","tag-estate","tag-face","tag-fur","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hairs","tag-jaw","tag-kids","tag-life","tag-morning","tag-muzzle","tag-pavement","tag-rifle","tag-round","tag-scratching","tag-sight","tag-snarl","tag-tormentor","tag-trail","tag-trigger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","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=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}