{"id":4901,"date":"2021-12-27T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2021-12-27T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:32:04","slug":"for-the-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/12\/27\/for-the-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cMen line up for me gingerly,\u201d I told my friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucky you,\u201d she remarked. \u201cHasn\u2019t happened for me in months. Last one was a real flop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry to hear that,\u201d I consoled, suddenly aware of my insensitivity. \u201cWhen you\u2019re ready, I can send one or two over to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was stunned, telling me how she lacked the courage to date again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I have to offer&#8230;well, they\u2019re good looking and appealing in other ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence prevailed. Then she spoke. \u201cSeriously?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely. I can deliver my gingerbread men to you, or you can pick them up at my place.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes, poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMen line up for me gingerly,\u201d I told my friend. \u201cLucky you,\u201d she remarked. \u201cHasn\u2019t happened for me in months. Last one was a real flop.\u201d \u201cSorry to hear that,\u201d I consoled, suddenly aware of my insensitivity. \u201cWhen you\u2019re ready, I can send one or two over to you.\u201d She was stunned, telling me how [&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":[10655,299,10653,4727,8126,10657,41,10654,3224,3299,5132,7787,1838,3362,10656],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-courage","tag-date","tag-flop","tag-friend","tag-from-guest-contributor","tag-gingerbread-men","tag-guest-contributor","tag-insensitivity","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-lucky","tag-months","tag-place","tag-silence","tag-sorry","tag-ways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","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=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}