{"id":3965,"date":"2020-04-13T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T03:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2020-04-13T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T03:42:44","slug":"god-bless-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/13\/god-bless-america\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY:<\/p>\n<p>He was met by his family at the Orlando airport after 12 long months of active duty.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Steven Hooks was a free man.  Now that the Army didn&#8217;t need him anymore, he could get back to being a husband and a father and re-open his dental practice.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria, his wife, suggested a movie for his first night home.  They gave the kids baths, dressed them in cozy pajamas, and loaded them into the station wagon.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at the booth he handed the cashier the money but she wouldn&#8217;t take it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry, but this drive-in is for whites only.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor E. Barnes<\/p>\n<p>E. has works published at Entropy, Spillwords, The Purple Pen, The Haven, and several works are in the anthology, &#8220;NanoNightmares.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY: He was met by his family at the Orlando airport after 12 long months of active duty. Captain Steven Hooks was a free man. Now that the Army didn&#8217;t need him anymore, he could get back to being a husband and a father and re-open his dental practice. Gloria, his wife, suggested [&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":[8879,4532,310,567,8881,2441,2000,1031,8880,8884,8092,614,1350,108,41,102,134,1285,1221,590,976,2665,6368,2107,8882,8883,153],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-active-duty","tag-airport","tag-america","tag-army","tag-baths","tag-booth","tag-captain","tag-cashier","tag-dental-practice","tag-drive-in","tag-e-barnes","tag-family","tag-father","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-historical-fiction","tag-home","tag-husband","tag-kids","tag-money","tag-movie","tag-night","tag-orlando","tag-pajamas","tag-station-wagon","tag-whites","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","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=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}