{"id":4899,"date":"2021-12-22T18:41:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:41:53","slug":"stranger-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/12\/22\/stranger-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One day a few years back I accompanied spouse and editor (same person) while she went shopping at the Albertsons a few blocks away.  I would wander aimlessly if I went with her, so I sat in a chair outside.  An average looking and dressing man walked up and sat beside me.  I feared he would talk religion or politics, but the conversation was banal to the point that I don\u2019t remember it.  He walked away.  It seemed that he disappeared, but he probably entered the store or turned a corner. I wonder why he chose to sit beside me. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/aberrantword\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Hawley<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day a few years back I accompanied spouse and editor (same person) while she went shopping at the Albertsons a few blocks away. I would wander aimlessly if I went with her, so I sat in a chair outside. An average looking and dressing man walked up and sat beside me. I feared he [&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":[10651,5591,2810,983,3069,9194,10652,41,2928,7106,6758,6685,500,2946,3271],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-albertsons","tag-blocks","tag-chair","tag-conversation","tag-corner","tag-doug-hawley","tag-editor","tag-guest-contributor","tag-outside","tag-person","tag-point","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-spouse","tag-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","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=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}