{"id":4166,"date":"2020-07-15T17:20:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T00:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T00:20:43","slug":"limited-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/07\/15\/limited-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Curtain rises.<\/p>\n<p>Exterior of a house, bushes, a weathered blue Chevy in the drive.<\/p>\n<p>The door opens. Enter GRANDPA. Locking the door, he crosses to the car. Six-year-old JEFFREY sneaks out of the bushes and creeps up behind Grandpa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new game. He&#8217;s incorrigible.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa jumps. &#8220;Jesus Motherfucking Christ!&#8221; Clamping a hand over his chest, he staggers, collapsing onto the side of the auto. Grandpa slips to the ground and is still.<\/p>\n<p>Wide-eyed Jeffrey cries.<\/p>\n<p>A spotlight from the stage shines out. The crying, a baby&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>The curtain falls.<\/p>\n<p>No curtain call.<\/p>\n<p>The houselights come up.<\/p>\n<p>Get out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Erik C. Martin<\/p>\n<p>Erik lives and writes in San Diego. He misses Comic-Con, his critique group, and SCBWI meetings. Follow him on Twitter at @ErikCMartin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtain rises. Exterior of a house, bushes, a weathered blue Chevy in the drive. The door opens. Enter GRANDPA. Locking the door, he crosses to the car. Six-year-old JEFFREY sneaks out of the bushes and creeps up behind Grandpa. &#8220;Boo!&#8221; The new game. He&#8217;s incorrigible. Grandpa jumps. &#8220;Jesus Motherfucking Christ!&#8221; Clamping a hand over his [&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":[9240,758,9238,1814,3258,9239,1029,6089,9242,2237,3281,9237,7778,3265,3555,41,2103,9241,7764,8741,4445,2362],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-auto","tag-baby","tag-bushes","tag-car","tag-chest","tag-chevy","tag-curses","tag-curtain","tag-curtain-call","tag-drive","tag-engagement","tag-erik-c-martin","tag-exterior","tag-grandpa","tag-ground","tag-guest-contributor","tag-house","tag-houselights","tag-jesus-christ","tag-spotlight","tag-stage","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}