{"id":4757,"date":"2021-09-09T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:37:17","slug":"brief-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/09\/09\/brief-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On night three of a four-day meeting, four of us drank in a bar. I played up to Jim, who was 20 years older, the boss, and buying.<\/p>\n<p>A young blonde walked up and clasped Jim\u2019s shoulder. \u201cLet\u2019s dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim cut out faster than our company bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe should be carded,\u201d Tony said.<\/p>\n<p>Jim returned quickly and gulped his drink. He signaled for a refill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re early,\u201d Phil said. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect you \u2018til morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phil, why don\u2019t you suck up to the boss?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas she a pro?\u201d Tony asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe shanghaied me,\u201d Jim said, \u201cto dance with her mother.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TomSnethen.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Snethen <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom is an Oregonian writing about the scoundrels he met in the chemical industry and being alone and scared as a widower at fifty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On night three of a four-day meeting, four of us drank in a bar. I played up to Jim, who was 20 years older, the boss, and buying. A young blonde walked up and clasped Jim\u2019s shoulder. \u201cLet\u2019s dance.\u201d Jim cut out faster than our company bonuses. \u201cShe should be carded,\u201d Tony said. Jim returned [&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":[2336,5146,936,10409,959,3703,41,2921,73,2449,6690,2136,10408],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-affair","tag-blonde","tag-boss","tag-company-bonus","tag-dance","tag-drink","tag-guest-contributor","tag-morning","tag-mother","tag-pro","tag-refill","tag-shoulder","tag-tom-snethen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757","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=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}