{"id":3802,"date":"2020-01-08T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2020-01-08T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:51:21","slug":"incensed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/01\/08\/incensed\/","title":{"rendered":"Incensed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The crumpled notebook paper can\u2019t be hurt, no matter how hard it\u2019s thrown. An anemic crackle sounds at impact, a lazy, pointless attempt to uncurl is its sole achievement. The lopsided wad sits atop the unburning end of a Duraflame log. Mercifully, black char ashes the paper\u2019s edge, further loosening the ball until gravity pulls it down to hearth. Still misshapened, I see blue ink, evidence of the second worst opening line in the history of writing. The winner is in my fist, ready to toss to the flames. It\u2019s the only way to bring fire to my words today. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor DL Shirey<\/p>\n<p>DL Shirey lives in Portland, Oregon, writing fiction, by and large, unless it&#8217;s small. He has been caught flashing at Caf\u00e9 Aphra, 365 Tomorrows, ZeroFlash, Fewer Than 500 and others listed at www.dlshirey.com and @dlshirey on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crumpled notebook paper can\u2019t be hurt, no matter how hard it\u2019s thrown. An anemic crackle sounds at impact, a lazy, pointless attempt to uncurl is its sole achievement. The lopsided wad sits atop the unburning end of a Duraflame log. Mercifully, black char ashes the paper\u2019s edge, further loosening the ball until gravity pulls [&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":[2178,5026,8152,3233,8540,8539,8541,6781,840,781,2563,5832,5463,41,8542,1621,4999,2909,3213,3515,8543,3456,6683,5261,37,2293],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-achievement","tag-ashes","tag-attempt","tag-ball","tag-crackle","tag-dl-shirey","tag-duraflame","tag-edge","tag-evidence","tag-fire","tag-fist","tag-flames","tag-gravity","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hearth","tag-history","tag-impact","tag-ink","tag-log","tag-notebook","tag-opening-line","tag-paper","tag-wad","tag-winner","tag-words","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","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=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}