{"id":4881,"date":"2021-12-07T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2021-12-07T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:23:49","slug":"fire-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/12\/07\/fire-and-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire And Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cHe took me for ten grand. Hustled me when I wasn\u2019t in my right mind,\u201d Demar mentioned. The waitress turned back, having forgotten a glass of water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what\u2019s happening to him now?\u201d Jim asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s losing everything. Never got a job. Had a streak of bad luck. Getting divorced.\u201d \t<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the water, Jim noticed it was mostly ice. \u201cWell, that\u2019s great. He deserved those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew this day would come. I didn\u2019t know I\u2019d feel sorry for him.\u201d The water arrived. Demar took a sip, and the coldness of the ice sent a shiver down his spine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Steve Colori<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe took me for ten grand. Hustled me when I wasn\u2019t in my right mind,\u201d Demar mentioned. The waitress turned back, having forgotten a glass of water. \u201cSo what\u2019s happening to him now?\u201d Jim asked. \u201cHe\u2019s losing everything. Never got a job. Had a streak of bad luck. Getting divorced.\u201d Looking at the water, Jim [&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":[1251,8641,3921,781,1634,41,4191,589,10612,3186,4343,5828,8950,10611,2192,177],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bad-luck","tag-coldness","tag-everything","tag-fire","tag-glass-of-water","tag-guest-contributor","tag-ice","tag-job","tag-right-mind","tag-shiver","tag-spine","tag-steve-colori","tag-streak","tag-ten-grand","tag-waitress","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","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=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}