{"id":4353,"date":"2020-11-17T18:19:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2020-11-17T18:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:19:50","slug":"the-bobby-pin-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/11\/17\/the-bobby-pin-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bobby Pin Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In my brother\u2019s dream, a woman was sleeping on his closet shelf. When she woke, she claimed she was going to kill our grandfather with bobby pins. She was surrounded by them, and called herself the Bobby Pin Woman. All the pins were short in those days, without the cushion things on the ends like now, that save your scalp. When we went to see our grandfather, he lay in a hospital bed that raised him up from the waist. At the Rosary, I asked my brother what \u201cHail Mary\u201d meant. At five I only knew to bow my head.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Linda Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Linda&#8217;s stories and poems have appeared in Outlook Springs, Misfit Magazine, Gone Lawn, A Story in 100 Words, What Rough Beast, Eunoia Review, and others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my brother\u2019s dream, a woman was sleeping on his closet shelf. When she woke, she claimed she was going to kill our grandfather with bobby pins. She was surrounded by them, and called herself the Bobby Pin Woman. All the pins were short in those days, without the cushion things on the ends like [&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":[9599,549,1855,3528,1065,9601,1476,41,9602,5998,1860,7920,8212,6588,6626,9600,8102,6715],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bobby-pin","tag-brother","tag-closet","tag-cushion","tag-dream","tag-ends","tag-grandfather","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hail-mary","tag-hospital-bed","tag-kill","tag-linda-lowe","tag-pins","tag-rosary","tag-scalp","tag-shelf","tag-things","tag-waist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}