{"id":4580,"date":"2021-04-27T18:13:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2021-04-27T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T01:13:01","slug":"mercurys-lunchbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/04\/27\/mercurys-lunchbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury\u2019s Lunchbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The courier waits outside the O.R. A moment after a surgeon calls the time of death, a nurse emerges, hands her a container. He says, \u201cGo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She hits a flat-out run. Courier and container speed in her van to the other hospital. Her supervisor radios warning: the patient\u2019s chest is open. Four or five minutes are the bought time, but here\u2019s a red light. Ninety seconds leeway when she\u2019s met by fresh legs at the E.R.\u2019s drop-off lane.<\/p>\n<p>Before she hears if the patient survived, she\u2019s picked up a container with a kidney in it.<\/p>\n<p>Always urgent, never finished. Hurrying.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Todd Mercer<\/p>\n<p>Todd writes Fiction and Poetry in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His collection Ingenue was published in 2020 by Celery City Press. Recent work appears in Blink Ink, Literary Yard and Pangolin Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The courier waits outside the O.R. A moment after a surgeon calls the time of death, a nurse emerges, hands her a container. He says, \u201cGo!\u201d She hits a flat-out run. Courier and container speed in her van to the other hospital. Her supervisor radios warning: the patient\u2019s chest is open. Four or five minutes [&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":[3258,3959,10107,10111,41,292,10112,3442,10110,2837,10106,10105,6035,10108,3939,2280,6525,5238,10109,8160,9726,1000],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-chest","tag-container","tag-courier","tag-e-r","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hospital","tag-kidney","tag-lane","tag-leeway","tag-legs","tag-lunchbox","tag-mercury","tag-nurse","tag-o-r","tag-patient","tag-red-light","tag-run","tag-supervisor","tag-surgeon","tag-time-of-death","tag-todd-mercer","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","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=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}