{"id":4021,"date":"2020-05-07T17:28:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2020-05-07T17:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:28:24","slug":"wasted-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/05\/07\/wasted-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasted Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A woman sighed and leaned over the cash register. \u201cI wish I could travel through time and be done with this shift already,\u201d she groaned.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, there was a whoosh, and the woman\u2019s short hair whipped around her face. Upon opening her eyes, she found herself sitting comfortably on her sofa at home. She grinned and turned on the television.<\/p>\n<p>Days, month, and years passed at light speed. With just one wish, each mundane, terrifying or embarrassing moment blurred into the past.<\/p>\n<p>The woman finally stopped when she lay sick and old on her bed, having never lived at all.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/caitlynpalmer.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlyn Palmer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman sighed and leaned over the cash register. \u201cI wish I could travel through time and be done with this shift already,\u201d she groaned. Suddenly, there was a whoosh, and the woman\u2019s short hair whipped around her face. Upon opening her eyes, she found herself sitting comfortably on her sofa at home. She grinned [&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":[2501,8973,8974,41,134,1910,2264,2163,1751,1109,8975],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bed","tag-caitlyn-palmer","tag-cash-register","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-light-speed","tag-shift","tag-sofa","tag-television","tag-time","tag-whoosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}