{"id":4619,"date":"2021-06-02T17:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2021-06-02T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:51:47","slug":"the-seventh-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/06\/02\/the-seventh-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seventh Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The squad car with blue lights flashing lit up the night and announced a police presence before he entered the building.<\/p>\n<p>The receptionist looked up at the cop coming through the door and smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood evening officer. This is becoming a regular occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Ma\u2019am, second Friday night this month,\u201d said the cop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me guess, seventh floor? Mrs. Smith called about Frannie\u2019s drinking party again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBingo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll try to settle Mrs. Smith down first, then talk with Frannie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cop shook his head and asked, \u201cHow loud can they be? This is a retirement village for God\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/N.-T.-Franklin\/e\/B013YXUBW6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">N.T. Franklin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NT Franklin has been published in Page and Spine, Fiction on the Web, 101 Words, Friday Flash Fiction, CafeLit, Madswirl, Postcard Shorts, 404 Words, Scarlet Leaf Review, Freedom Fiction, Burrst, Entropy, Alsina Publishing, Fifty-word stories, Dime Show Review, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The squad car with blue lights flashing lit up the night and announced a police presence before he entered the building. The receptionist looked up at the cop coming through the door and smiled. \u201cGood evening officer. This is becoming a regular occurrence.\u201d \u201cYes, Ma\u2019am, second Friday night this month,\u201d said the cop. \u201cLet me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10175,2752,1959,10174,3309,10173,108,41,3030,10172,7522,2665,5484,3211,198,7226,10171,10176,7073],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bingo","tag-building","tag-cop","tag-drinking-party","tag-floor","tag-friday-night","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lights","tag-maam","tag-month","tag-night","tag-nt-franklin","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-presence","tag-regular-occurrence","tag-retirement-village","tag-squad-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","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=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}