{"id":4833,"date":"2021-11-01T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T02:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T02:11:59","slug":"understaffed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/11\/01\/understaffed\/","title":{"rendered":"Understaffed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Number Six,\u201d Death said to his probationary assistant, \u201cbut I\u2019m going to have to let you go. Even though business is booming, and I need all the help I can get, you\u2019ve just made too many mistakes. You\u2019ve ended the lives of three people who were not supposed to die&#8230;just this week!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBu&#8230;but,\u201d Six stammered. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t my fault. The paperwork was mixed up on one and the GPS wasn\u2019t working on the others. Plus, all the overtime and&#8230;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough!\u201d Death barked. \u201cNo excuses! There is just no place in this organization for a Dim Reaper!\u201d <\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Lee Hammerschmidt <\/p>\n<p>Lee is a Visual Artist\/Writer\/Troubadour who lives in Oregon. He is the author of the short story collections, A Hole Of My Own and It\u2019s Noir O\u2019clock Somewhere. Check out his hit parade on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MrLeehammer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Number Six,\u201d Death said to his probationary assistant, \u201cbut I\u2019m going to have to let you go. Even though business is booming, and I need all the help I can get, you\u2019ve just made too many mistakes. You\u2019ve ended the lives of three people who were not supposed to die&#8230;just this week!\u201d \u201cBu&#8230;but,\u201d [&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":[3154,295,2493,6081,6693,620,41,6691,10275,10526,10528,10527,229,10525,6475],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-business","tag-death","tag-die","tag-excuses","tag-fault","tag-gps","tag-guest-contributor","tag-help","tag-lee-hammerschmidt","tag-mistakes","tag-organization","tag-overtime","tag-paperwork","tag-probationary-assistant","tag-reaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","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=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}