{"id":4688,"date":"2021-07-20T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:29:39","slug":"than-anything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/07\/20\/than-anything-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Than Anything Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I asked him about the authors that influenced him.<\/p>\n<p>He shrugged the question away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m more embarrassed by the story than anything else. Let it die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Than anything else,&#8221; I thought. And again &#8220;Let it die.&#8221; What was that anything else?<\/p>\n<p>He was at the wood stove again, apparently indicating that was it, the interview was over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Walkside, strophanthin, and the adult bookstore,&#8221; I said, trying to be delicate. &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying you didn&#8217;t make things up, but&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He spun quickly, poker in his hand. The dogs&#8217; heads jerked up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you want from me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interview was over.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Rick Henry<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked him about the authors that influenced him. He shrugged the question away. &#8220;I&#8217;m more embarrassed by the story than anything else. Let it die.&#8221; &#8220;Than anything else,&#8221; I thought. And again &#8220;Let it die.&#8221; What was that anything else? He was at the wood stove again, apparently indicating that was it, the interview [&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":[10293,10290,10291,771,41,10292,10294,3488,10289,2697,5768],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-adult-bookstore","tag-anything-else","tag-authors","tag-dogs","tag-guest-contributor","tag-interview","tag-poker","tag-question","tag-rick-henry","tag-story","tag-wood-stove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}