{"id":4238,"date":"2020-08-19T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2020-08-19T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:27:17","slug":"on-being-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/08\/19\/on-being-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being A Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HUBRIS CONTEST:<\/p>\n<p>His backhand caused her body to pirouette grotesquely before landing face down on the coffee table.  <\/p>\n<p>Wincing, she rolled off the table, and sat up, mopping blood futilely from her mouth with the back of her right hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t ya proud o\u2019 me, workin\u2019 all night?\u201d he whined.<\/p>\n<p>Unblinking, she nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the boy, who\u2019d learned what a man was from his father, brought the cast iron pan onto the back of his father\u2019s head with a sound like a loud wet kiss.  <\/p>\n<p>The man slid to the ground gracefully.<\/p>\n<p>Beaming at her son, she said, \u201cNow that\u2019s a man!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Jody Lehrer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUBRIS CONTEST: His backhand caused her body to pirouette grotesquely before landing face down on the coffee table. Wincing, she rolled off the table, and sat up, mopping blood futilely from her mouth with the back of her right hand. \u201cAren\u2019t ya proud o\u2019 me, workin\u2019 all night?\u201d he whined. Unblinking, she nodded. Then, the [&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":[9352,281,1677,250,2162,1350,3555,41,9280,9351,215,2212,9353,2914,9354],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-backhand","tag-blood","tag-body","tag-boy","tag-coffee-table","tag-father","tag-ground","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hubris-contest","tag-jody-lehrer","tag-man","tag-mouth","tag-pan","tag-sound","tag-wet-kiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","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=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}