{"id":4253,"date":"2020-08-31T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2020-09-01T17:44:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:44:03","slug":"irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/08\/31\/irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I\u2019m very excited to announce the winner of our Hubris Flash Fiction Contest, from regular contributor Lisa Scuderi-Burkimsher. I hope that winning doesn&#8217;t go to her head! <\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Lisa! And thank you to everyone who submitted to the contest. It was difficult picking just one.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nBill combed his hair, gave a thumbs up to his reflection in the mirror and then left.<\/p>\n<p>He walked with a swagger and passing bystanders cussed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pandemic, wear a mask, idiot,\u201d yelled an irate man from across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Bill flipped him the finger and continued.<\/p>\n<p>When he arrived at his cousin&#8217;s barbecue, he was stopped at the back gate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t come in here without a mask,\u201d said his cousin, Mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on, man, I never get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark slammed the gate in his face.<\/p>\n<p>Bill stood for a moment before walking away and then sneezed. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m very excited to announce the winner of our Hubris Flash Fiction Contest, from regular contributor Lisa Scuderi-Burkimsher. I hope that winning doesn&#8217;t go to her head! Congratulations Lisa! And thank you to everyone who submitted to the contest. It was difficult picking just one. Bill combed his hair, gave a thumbs up to 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":[9407,9405,6617,1029,2838,3443,41,1291,9280,3570,1997,5521,1850,1347,2023,3476,2567,5941,1971,9404,9406,9403],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-barbecue","tag-bystanders","tag-cousin","tag-curses","tag-face","tag-gate","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-hubris-contest","tag-idiot","tag-irony","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-mask","tag-mirror","tag-pandemic","tag-reflection","tag-sick","tag-sneeze","tag-street","tag-swagger","tag-the-finger","tag-thumbs-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","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=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}