{"id":3811,"date":"2020-01-14T20:57:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2020-01-15T20:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T03:35:40","slug":"caught-on-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/01\/14\/caught-on-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught On Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Funny, no one notices who is watching them. Overhead cameras, hidden inside rooftop owls, are wired to scare away drifting seagulls eating garbage bin leftovers. Genius: catching two birds with one shot\u2014two kinds of thieves that never pay attention. 24\/7: every move recorded, like clockwork. The boss reads the tape &#038; sees you hustle into the crowded store, stopping first at the newsstand for a free newspaper; then, heading to the back where wild caught clams sit on crushed ice. It\u2019s always a gamble, perched there like a fixture, until they switch off the lights for the night shift.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor M.J. Iuppa<\/p>\n<p>M.J.&#8217;s fourth poetry collection is This Thirst (Kelsay Books, 2017). For the past 31 years, she has lived on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Check out her blog: mjiuppa.blogspot.com for her musings on writing, sustainability &#038; life\u2019s stew.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, no one notices who is watching them. Overhead cameras, hidden inside rooftop owls, are wired to scare away drifting seagulls eating garbage bin leftovers. Genius: catching two birds with one shot\u2014two kinds of thieves that never pay attention. 24\/7: every move recorded, like clockwork. The boss reads the tape &#038; sees you hustle into [&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":[6298,1180,936,8564,8569,8567,8570,4232,8565,5343,41,4191,8566,3030,7539,1725,8568,8571,7901,1880,2071,3271,2208,3088],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-attention","tag-birds","tag-boss","tag-cameras","tag-clams","tag-clockwork","tag-fixture","tag-gamble","tag-garbage-bin","tag-genius","tag-guest-contributor","tag-ice","tag-leftovers","tag-lights","tag-m-j-iuppa","tag-newspaper","tag-newstand","tag-night-shift","tag-owls","tag-seagulls","tag-shot","tag-store","tag-tape","tag-thieves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}