{"id":4659,"date":"2021-07-01T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2021-07-01T19:33:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:33:14","slug":"when-i-realised-the-earth-wasnt-flat-i-felt-pretty-damn-foolish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/07\/01\/when-i-realised-the-earth-wasnt-flat-i-felt-pretty-damn-foolish\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Realised The Earth Wasn\u2019t Flat, I Felt Pretty Damn Foolish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The swarm arrived at the beginning of the week, their language that of war, and humanity the patient listeners.<\/p>\n<p>Continents of flame pulsed now, flickering orange across a world recently gone dark.<\/p>\n<p>Those who could, stayed and fought. Crumbling capitals and plasma-charred skeletons formed the battlefields of Earth by midweek.<\/p>\n<p>Those who couldn\u2019t (and those like myself who wouldn\u2019t), hopped on the soonest evac shuttles to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>I nudge a couple away from the window to catch the last view of a burning Earth from orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The sight haunts me.<\/p>\n<p>After all this time, I had guessed the shape wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor S.R Malone<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swarm arrived at the beginning of the week, their language that of war, and humanity the patient listeners. Continents of flame pulsed now, flickering orange across a world recently gone dark. Those who could, stayed and fought. Crumbling capitals and plasma-charred skeletons formed the battlefields of Earth by midweek. Those who couldn\u2019t (and those [&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":[10245,10243,10242,980,269,10246,5011,41,541,4179,2044,1788,10244,10240,4838,2646,10241,1109,5534,88,1841,3880],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-battlefields","tag-capitals","tag-continents","tag-couple","tag-earth","tag-evac-shuttle","tag-flame","tag-guest-contributor","tag-humanity","tag-language","tag-mars","tag-orbit","tag-plasma","tag-s-r-malone","tag-sight","tag-skeletons","tag-swarm","tag-time","tag-view","tag-war","tag-window","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","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=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}