{"id":3952,"date":"2020-04-07T20:54:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T03:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T03:55:11","slug":"until-further-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/07\/until-further-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Until Further Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanks to social distancing, my co-worker Connor and I are finally alone. Only two employees at a time are permitted in the break room to clean out their lockers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you know Amazon Prime ships steel caskets in two days?\u201d Connor looks at me, and my gut drops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to CNN, death rates are rising. We need to plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even when he says crazy things, he\u2019s irresistibly cute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, it\u2019s okay,\u201d I say, \u201cAt least we weren\u2019t fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess,\u201d Connor sighs, \u201cBut how long will we work from home?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I shrug. \u201cSo kiss me now before you can\u2019t.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Tammy Smith <\/p>\n<p>Tammy is a social worker from New Jersey. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Esthetic Apostle, Ailment: Chronicles of Illness Narratives, The Dewdrop, io Literary Journal, and Ariel Chart. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to social distancing, my co-worker Connor and I are finally alone. Only two employees at a time are permitted in the break room to clean out their lockers. \u201cDid you know Amazon Prime ships steel caskets in two days?\u201d Connor looks at me, and my gut drops. \u201cWhat?\u201d \u201cAccording to CNN, death rates are [&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":[8855,2595,7521,8860,8857,8861,8858,41,8859,134,2052,2539,8856,8781,8854],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-amazon-prime","tag-break-room","tag-caskets","tag-cnn","tag-co-worker","tag-death-rates","tag-employees","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gut","tag-home","tag-kiss","tag-lockers","tag-notice","tag-social-distancing","tag-tammy-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","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=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}