{"id":3804,"date":"2020-01-10T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2020-01-10T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T07:02:12","slug":"slow-and-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/01\/10\/slow-and-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow And Steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Millie was a fireball and Herbert was steady. The cattle woke them up one night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSnake,\u201d Millie said. And she shot out of bed.<\/p>\n<p>Millie had the snake partially subdued with a garden rake. It was still moving so she stood on it with her right foot just behind the head and her left near the tail. Barefoot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHerbert! Get out here!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHerbert!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Herbert comes sauntering up to the corral. Fully dressed, knife in pocket, hat on, boots laced up, he sized up the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillie, if I knew you had it, I wouldn\u2019t have hurried so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor NT Franklin <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millie was a fireball and Herbert was steady. The cattle woke them up one night. \u201cSnake,\u201d Millie said. And she shot out of bed. Millie had the snake partially subdued with a garden rake. It was still moving so she stood on it with her right foot just behind the head and her left near [&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":[4711,2501,1478,7932,8546,8544,419,41,2326,1735,2665,5484,748,3167,8545,7615,1124,2769],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-answer","tag-bed","tag-boots","tag-cattle","tag-corral","tag-fireball","tag-garden","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hat","tag-knife","tag-night","tag-nt-franklin","tag-pocket","tag-rake","tag-right-foot","tag-situation","tag-snake","tag-tail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","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=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}