{"id":4052,"date":"2020-05-26T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2020-05-26T17:19:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:19:18","slug":"the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/05\/26\/the-path\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I hurried, heart trilling, feet moving. Left turn, right. The path was familiar, an old enemy. Left again. I could have screamed. It was here somewhere. Right turn.  <\/p>\n<p>Yes. There it was, the candy-red button. I pressed it down. A tray burst open with the pellet inside. I crunched into its horrible glory. Relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNice work, Algernon,\u201d the human said, her thick hand lifting me from the labyrinth and setting me in fresh sawdust. I curled my tail around me. If I slept now, I would reawaken to the path and begin again. Did I have a choice?<\/p>\n<p>I slept.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ryan Doskocil<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hurried, heart trilling, feet moving. Left turn, right. The path was familiar, an old enemy. Left again. I could have screamed. It was here somewhere. Right turn. Yes. There it was, the candy-red button. I pressed it down. A tray burst open with the pellet inside. I crunched into its horrible glory. Relief. \u201cNice [&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":[9040,3367,2391,2120,2087,1411,41,2717,4970,1973,9039,6602,9038,9041,2769,6252],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-algernon","tag-button","tag-choice","tag-enemy","tag-feet","tag-glory","tag-guest-contributor","tag-human","tag-labyrinth","tag-path","tag-pellet","tag-relief","tag-ryan-doskocil","tag-sawdust","tag-tail","tag-turn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","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=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}