{"id":4310,"date":"2020-10-15T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2020-10-15T16:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:56:34","slug":"queue-for-killing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/10\/15\/queue-for-killing-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Queue For Killing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mow lawn with toenail clipper; count sand. Invite spiders to tea party; pretend you\u2019re the Mad Hatter.<\/p>\n<p>Adopt imaginary twins; cry when they say their first word (\u201cquarantine\u201d); ransack new recipes to quiet their insatiable hunger; crank open doors and windows; demonstrate how to run fingers over wild, overgrown grass; bike them to beach; build castles, mermaids, moats; inhale salty ocean air; watch fire-red sun sink into horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Lift face to pale moon and marvel, \u201cIsn\u2019t it crazy that there are more stars in the sky than all the grains of sand on earth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Time killed, savor moment without end.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Michelle Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Michelle\u2019s words have appeared in 50-Word Stories, 101 Words, Literally Stories, The Miami Herald, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida.  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mow lawn with toenail clipper; count sand. Invite spiders to tea party; pretend you\u2019re the Mad Hatter. Adopt imaginary twins; cry when they say their first word (\u201cquarantine\u201d); ransack new recipes to quiet their insatiable hunger; crank open doors and windows; demonstrate how to run fingers over wild, overgrown grass; bike them to beach; build [&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":[2149,8427,2698,2749,529,41,1456,1683,528,9512,681,9509,9514,5030,9515,8807,9510,9513,2933,1438,1531,306,1109,9511,15],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beach","tag-castles","tag-end","tag-fingers","tag-grass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-horizon","tag-hunger","tag-lawn","tag-mad-hatter","tag-mermaids","tag-michelle-wilson","tag-moats","tag-moment","tag-ocean-air","tag-quarantine","tag-queue","tag-recipes","tag-sand","tag-spiders","tag-sun","tag-tea-party","tag-time","tag-toenail-clipper","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","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=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}