{"id":4548,"date":"2021-04-06T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2021-04-06T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T23:32:52","slug":"early-bird-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/04\/06\/early-bird-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Bird Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doubled-masked and leaning into the pharmacy\u2019s window, you answer questions that will later identify you immediately. It\u2019s 11:59 a.m. and the Know-It-All Tech, with a bar code label on her wrist and seascape nails, is already sick of the routine: Fill out these papers, sign here and here; take papers around back &#038; sit with arm exposed; face turned to the left, as a cool alcohol swab cleans an invisible bull\u2019s eye. The outgoing pharmacist chats about snow &#038; cold and you barely feel him stick you with the needle. Done, he says, pressing a circle band-aid over your future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor M.J.Iuppa<\/p>\n<p>M.J.Iuppa lives on a small farm near the shores of lake Ontario.  Her  100 word stories have appeared in 100 Word Story, Eunoia Review, Otoliths, Jellyfish Review, A Story in a 100 Words, The Dribble Drabble Review, The Drabble Review, Milk Candy Review, Lost Balloon, and others. . Check out her blog: mjiuppa.blogspot.com for her musings on writing, sustainability &#038; life\u2019s stew.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubled-masked and leaning into the pharmacy\u2019s window, you answer questions that will later identify you immediately. It\u2019s 11:59 a.m. and the Know-It-All Tech, with a bar code label on her wrist and seascape nails, is already sick of the routine: Fill out these papers, sign here and here; take papers around back &#038; sit with [&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":[10038,2135,10040,10037,9208,2692,10033,1047,41,10036,3695,7539,3912,4766,3636,10039,9027,1876,2417,3149,10034,10035,1841,8007],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alcohol-swab","tag-arm","tag-band-aid","tag-bar-code","tag-bulls-eye","tag-cold","tag-early-bird","tag-future","tag-guest-contributor","tag-know-it-all","tag-label","tag-m-j-iuppa","tag-nails","tag-needle","tag-papers","tag-pharmacist","tag-pharmacy","tag-questions","tag-routine","tag-snow","tag-special","tag-tech","tag-window","tag-wrist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","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=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}