{"id":4025,"date":"2020-05-11T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T04:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2020-05-11T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T04:06:25","slug":"the-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/05\/11\/the-sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The sickness, that\u2019s all we told Billy.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t believe that Grampy fit into such a little container and we couldn\u2019t convince him Grampy wasn\u2019t coming home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Grampy lives at home. Where will he live?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two were inseparable from Billy\u2019s birth. Half-day Kindergarten was traumatic. Grampy paced all morning waiting for Billy to get home.<\/p>\n<p>Once we gave Grampy a T-shirt emblazoned \u201cGrampy: the myth, the legend, the man.\u201d He wore nothing else unless it was pried off him to wash. He looked so peaceful in the casket wearing that T-shirt, we cremated him in it. Damn coronavirus. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/N.-T.-Franklin\/e\/B013YXUBW6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NT Franklin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NT Franklin has been published in Page and Spine, Fiction on the Web, 101 Words, Friday Flash Fiction, CafeLit, Madswirl, Postcard Shorts, 404 Words, Scarlet Leaf Review, Freedom Fiction, Burrst, Entropy, Alsina Publishing, Fifty-word stories, Dime Show Review, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sickness, that\u2019s all we told Billy. He couldn\u2019t believe that Grampy fit into such a little container and we couldn\u2019t convince him Grampy wasn\u2019t coming home. \u201cBut Grampy lives at home. Where will he live?\u201d The two were inseparable from Billy\u2019s birth. Half-day Kindergarten was traumatic. Grampy paced all morning waiting for Billy to [&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":[1052,2912,3959,8983,8981,41,457,3018,6042,5484,3927,5874,8982,3717],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birth","tag-casket","tag-container","tag-coronavirus","tag-grampy","tag-guest-contributor","tag-kindergarten","tag-legend","tag-myth","tag-nt-franklin","tag-sickness","tag-t-shirt","tag-the-man","tag-urn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}