{"id":3773,"date":"2019-12-20T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T06:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2019-12-20T23:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T06:17:17","slug":"eight-maids-a-yelping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/12\/20\/eight-maids-a-yelping\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Maids a-Yelping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cWhat\u2019s a milkmaid to do? The only thing bovine hereabouts is the Silly Cow who owns the place. During the first seven days of Christmas, she let her true love convert her manor house into an aviary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me about it! I\u2019m a housemaid, but I don\u2019t do windows and I don\u2019t do guano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A barefoot parlor maid lamented, \u201cLook at my bloody feet after half a dozen geese pecked my corns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other five recently-hired maids commiserated with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s tar and feather the harpy. We can substitute pine pitch, in a pinch, and there\u2019s no shortage of feathers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor John H. Dromey<\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s short fiction has appeared in Mystery Weekly Magazine, Stupefying Stories Showcase, Thriller Magazine, Unfit Magazine, and elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s a milkmaid to do? The only thing bovine hereabouts is the Silly Cow who owns the place. During the first seven days of Christmas, she let her true love convert her manor house into an aviary.\u201d \u201cTell me about it! I\u2019m a housemaid, but I don\u2019t do windows and I don\u2019t do guano.\u201d A [&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":[8480,824,42,8484,461,4770,8326,8482,41,8486,8481,8127,8483,8477,8479,8478,8183,4198,5061,8487,8485,769,2754],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aviary","tag-bovine","tag-christmas","tag-corns","tag-cow","tag-feathers","tag-geese","tag-guano","tag-guest-contributor","tag-harpy","tag-housemaid","tag-john-h-dromey","tag-maid","tag-maids","tag-manor-house","tag-milkmaid","tag-parlor","tag-pinch","tag-pine","tag-pitch","tag-tar-and-feather","tag-true-love","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","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=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}