{"id":4180,"date":"2020-07-24T16:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:50:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:50:05","slug":"the-lottery-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/07\/24\/the-lottery-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lottery Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cYou know what I\u2019d do if we ever win the Lottery Jackpot,\u201d she says while she crumples this week\u2019s ticket.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard this before. She\u2019ll start summing up wild and expensive dreams, each time leaving out some she no longer desires, but adding a few new extravaganzas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;south of France. An electric car, we\u2019ve talked about this. It\u2019s the latest fashion \u2013 we should definitely own one. Quit our jobs, obviously. And you won\u2019t have to mow the lawn of that young widow twice a week any more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sure as hell hope we never win that freaking Lottery Jackpot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Herv\u00e9 Suys <\/p>\n<p>Herv\u00e9 (\u00b01968 \u2013 Ronse, Belgium) started writing short stories whilst recovering from a sports injury and hasn\u2019t stopped since.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou know what I\u2019d do if we ever win the Lottery Jackpot,\u201d she says while she crumples this week\u2019s ticket. I\u2019ve heard this before. She\u2019ll start summing up wild and expensive dreams, each time leaving out some she no longer desires, but adding a few new extravaganzas. \u201c&#8230;south of France. An electric car, we\u2019ve talked [&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":[1211,9263,9262,885,2349,41,332,9028,4083,2158,528,8666,4462,8096,209],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-dreams","tag-electric-car","tag-extravaganzas","tag-fashion","tag-france","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hell","tag-herve-suys","tag-jackpot","tag-jobs","tag-lawn","tag-lottery","tag-ticket","tag-week","tag-widow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","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=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}