{"id":4567,"date":"2021-04-19T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T01:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2021-04-19T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T01:48:50","slug":"special-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/04\/19\/special-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maybe advertising was the wrong field for Bob. His boss, Ralph, passed him up for the accounts he wanted, like \u201cGranola Gambit\u201d and \u201cVeg It Up,\u201d giving those to his arch-nemesis, Ted. Bob kept getting accounts like \u201cKiller Shrimp\u201d and \u201cPork for Your Fork.\u201d (Bob was a known vegan; passive aggressive much, Ralph?) Bob would\u2019ve left ages ago had it not been for his secret love for his coworker, Darlene. He couldn\u2019t shake the vision he\u2019d had of her one day when he\u2019d come upon her eating barbecued ribs like a wild animal. She\u2019d been covered in sauce, but adorable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Susmita Ramani <\/p>\n<p>Susmita lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children. She\u2019s a lifelong writer whose work has appeared in The Daily Drunk, Nymeria Publishing (winner of March 2021 poetry contest), 50 Word Stories, and Vine Leaves Press (50 Give or Take), and will appear in upcoming issues of Short Fiction Break and Secret Attic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe advertising was the wrong field for Bob. His boss, Ralph, passed him up for the accounts he wanted, like \u201cGranola Gambit\u201d and \u201cVeg It Up,\u201d giving those to his arch-nemesis, Ted. Bob kept getting accounts like \u201cKiller Shrimp\u201d and \u201cPork for Your Fork.\u201d (Bob was a known vegan; passive aggressive much, Ralph?) Bob would\u2019ve [&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":[3063,3308,509,3188,10074,936,1676,9170,10069,10068,41,600,10073,10072,10076,519,10071,10067,10066,10070,291,4127,10075],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-accounts","tag-adorable","tag-advertising","tag-arch-nemesis","tag-barbecued-ribs","tag-boss","tag-field","tag-fork","tag-gambit","tag-granola","tag-guest-contributor","tag-love","tag-passive-aggressive","tag-pork","tag-sauce","tag-secret","tag-shrimp","tag-special-sauce","tag-susmita-ramani","tag-veg","tag-vegan","tag-vision","tag-wild-animal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","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=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}