{"id":4150,"date":"2020-07-07T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2020-07-07T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:26:05","slug":"prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/07\/07\/prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The birds of appetite circled the spot below them on the desert floor. Inkblots against a sky cloudless and blue. They wheeled in decreasing concentric circles. Always, the spot the center of a bull\u2019s-eye.<\/p>\n<p>One bird landed feet from his target. Drawing nearer, he became agitated. There was nothing there. With a screech he took off in search of better prey.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, the spot resolved itself against the haze and became the figure of a man. He had stopped to rest after walking for hours. He stood now, indifferent to temperature and to thirst. Indifferent as well to his destination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor James C. Clar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birds of appetite circled the spot below them on the desert floor. Inkblots against a sky cloudless and blue. They wheeled in decreasing concentric circles. Always, the spot the center of a bull\u2019s-eye. One bird landed feet from his target. Drawing nearer, he became agitated. There was nothing there. With a screech he took [&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":[9206,1180,9208,5652,2662,145,4137,2543,3309,41,5206,9207,9205,215,3236,1736,6295,4002,8340,5186],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-appetite","tag-birds","tag-bulls-eye","tag-center","tag-circles","tag-desert","tag-destination","tag-figure","tag-floor","tag-guest-contributor","tag-haze","tag-inkblots","tag-james-c-clar","tag-man","tag-prey","tag-sky","tag-spot","tag-target","tag-temperature","tag-thirst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}