{"id":4919,"date":"2022-01-12T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2022-01-12T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:55:32","slug":"the-final-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/01\/12\/the-final-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She lays on the table like a forgotten doll, eyes closed. The final procedure is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Let it work.<\/p>\n<p>A moment of silence, then she opens her eyes. And smiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi, Daddy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m David.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you\u2019re&#8230;old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She searches her memory, then cries out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe car!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t hurt you, Rachel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It hurt me. The drunk barreling down the road, right at her. And I, her big brother, her protector, too far away.<\/p>\n<p>She wraps her arms around me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hug her to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is this place?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy laboratory. This is where I make cyborgs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetwritingworkshop.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Petersen<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She lays on the table like a forgotten doll, eyes closed. The final procedure is complete. Let it work. A moment of silence, then she opens her eyes. And smiles. \u201cHi, Daddy!\u201d \u201cI\u2019m David.\u201d \u201cBut you\u2019re&#8230;old.\u201d She searches her memory, then cries out. \u201cThe car!\u201d \u201cIt can\u2019t hurt you, Rachel.\u201d It hurt me. The drunk [&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":[2303,3011,10699,1814,10700,747,1331,10698,41,2385,1159,7787,3873,9999,1717,1821],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arms","tag-attitude-problem","tag-big-brother","tag-car","tag-cyborgs","tag-doll","tag-drunk","tag-eric-petersen","tag-guest-contributor","tag-laboratory","tag-memory","tag-place","tag-procedure","tag-protector","tag-road","tag-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","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=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}