{"id":4456,"date":"2021-02-01T19:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2021-02-01T19:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:03:42","slug":"the-three-of-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/02\/01\/the-three-of-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Of Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One night our guy grabs the deck of us and off we go to school. \u201cPick a card,\u201d he says, walking around the classroom. Yes, we\u2019re old, with some bent corners and a few stains, our winning days behind us. But to be held up and fanned out? Like we were some old chorus line, called up for one last show. I go right after my buddy, the Four of Clubs, to someone who sticks me in a book called Misery. And how! I was never one for the solitary life. All I wanted to do was play my part.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Linda Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Linda&#8217;s stories have appeared in Misfit Magazine, Star 82 Review, Bombfire Lit, and others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night our guy grabs the deck of us and off we go to school. \u201cPick a card,\u201d he says, walking around the classroom. Yes, we\u2019re old, with some bent corners and a few stains, our winning days behind us. But to be held up and fanned out? Like we were some old chorus line, [&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":[164,9820,3998,9819,6012,9818,5400,7022,8631,41,7593,2191,7920,3345,131,3597,6600],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-book","tag-buddy","tag-card","tag-chorus-line","tag-classroom","tag-clubs","tag-corners","tag-days","tag-deck","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guy","tag-life","tag-linda-lowe","tag-misery","tag-school","tag-show","tag-stains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","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=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}