{"id":3789,"date":"2020-01-01T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T04:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2020-01-03T01:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T08:02:47","slug":"breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/01\/01\/breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>8:45, he gets up quietly. While the coffee\u2019s brewing he takes two cups and two glasses and places them on the kitchen table. He takes the orange juice and the butter from the fridge and the butter knife from the drawer, then slips English muffins into the toaster. He pours himself coffee and orange juice and switches on the radio for the news.<\/p>\n<p>When he\u2019s done, he trudges to the living room and does a crossword puzzle in the armchair, facing her photograph. Later, when he puts everything into the dishwasher, he\u2019ll place her cup and glass next to his.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Xavier Combe <\/p>\n<p>Xavier is a freelance conference interpreter and translator. He teaches at the University of Paris X. He has authored two non-fiction books in French as well as op-eds in the French press. His story The Games People Play won 3rd Prize at the October 2019 Bath Flash Fiction Award. He writes and produces audio fiction with 2-time Peabody award winner Jim Hall on their website muffydrake.com. He has two adult sons and lives in the Paris suburbs with his wife, their two teenage daughters and their dog Zelda.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8:45, he gets up quietly. While the coffee\u2019s brewing he takes two cups and two glasses and places them on the kitchen table. He takes the orange juice and the butter from the fridge and the butter knife from the drawer, then slips English muffins into the toaster. He pours himself coffee and orange juice [&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":[2258,733,3448,8517,2439,8519,3197,4534,7563,8518,5659,2551,41,6769,2161,3957,8516,8520,2570,4331,8515],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-armchair","tag-breakfast","tag-butter","tag-butter-knife","tag-coffee","tag-crossword-puzzle","tag-cups","tag-dishwasher","tag-drawer","tag-english-muffins","tag-fridge","tag-glasses","tag-guest-contributor","tag-kitchen-table","tag-living-room","tag-news","tag-orange-juice","tag-photograph","tag-radio","tag-toaster","tag-xavier-combe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","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=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}