{"id":4933,"date":"2022-01-26T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2022-01-26T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T01:35:09","slug":"any-other-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/01\/26\/any-other-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Other Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s \u201cNew Year\u2019s Eve\u201d, and Nick sits in front of the television gulping beer waiting for the ball to drop. His dog Gatsby rests his head on Nick\u2019s lap seeking attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay,\u201d Nick says and rubs Gatsby\u2019s head. \u201cHow\u2019s that feel?\u201d Gatsby contentedly wags his tail.<\/p>\n<p>His neighbors are causing a raucous across the hall, laughing and playing loud music which fills the hallway, but the property owner doesn\u2019t care since he\u2019s there too. Nick, a loner, considers his science teaching job and Gatsby his friends.<\/p>\n<p>The ball drops and Nick\u2019s year will be the same as any other year. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s \u201cNew Year\u2019s Eve\u201d, and Nick sits in front of the television gulping beer waiting for the ball to drop. His dog Gatsby rests his head on Nick\u2019s lap seeking attention. \u201cOkay,\u201d Nick says and rubs Gatsby\u2019s head. \u201cHow\u2019s that feel?\u201d Gatsby contentedly wags his tail. His neighbors are causing a raucous across the hall, [&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":[6298,3233,3699,213,116,41,3710,7763,589,2835,5521,6225,963,3162,5756,10725,10724,54,2769,10726,1751,3995],"class_list":["post-4933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-attention","tag-ball","tag-beer","tag-dog","tag-friends","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hall","tag-hallway","tag-job","tag-lap","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-loner","tag-music","tag-neighbors","tag-new-years-eve","tag-property-owner","tag-raucous","tag-science","tag-tail","tag-teaching","tag-television","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933","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=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}