{"id":4935,"date":"2022-01-27T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:39:11","slug":"temperature-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/01\/27\/temperature-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rudder lay on the trainer\u2019s table writhing in agony. His throwing arm was swollen to bulbous proportions. A nasty, blistering rash spread from his wrist to his shoulder. His body convulsed with chills, a fever of 105\u00b0. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you been self-treating again?\u201d the team doctor asked. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust some analgesic balm. The big game\u2019s on Sunday and my arm\u2019s killing me. I need to be ready.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much balm?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour tubes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat! The body can\u2019t absorb that much!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill I be okay by kickoff?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way you\u2019re playing!\u201d the doctor said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got a severe case of Ben Gay Fever!\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lee Hammerschmidt <\/p>\n<p>Lee is a Visual Artist\/Writer\/Troubadour who lives in Oregon. He is the author of the short story collections, A Hole Of My Own and It\u2019s Noir O\u2019clock Somewhere. Check out his hit parade on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MrLeehammer\">YouTube<\/a>! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudder lay on the trainer\u2019s table writhing in agony. His throwing arm was swollen to bulbous proportions. A nasty, blistering rash spread from his wrist to his shoulder. His body convulsed with chills, a fever of 105\u00b0. \u201cHave you been self-treating again?\u201d the team doctor asked. \u201cJust some analgesic balm. The big game\u2019s on Sunday [&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":[9613,2135,10729,10731,1677,6020,5561,2566,2479,41,10730,10275,9156,8257,2136,3114,10728,8340,10727,6312,6255,8007],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-agony","tag-arm","tag-balm","tag-ben-gay","tag-body","tag-case","tag-chills","tag-fever","tag-game","tag-guest-contributor","tag-kickoff","tag-lee-hammerschmidt","tag-proportions","tag-rash","tag-shoulder","tag-sunday","tag-team-doctor","tag-temperature","tag-throwing-arm","tag-trainer","tag-tubes","tag-wrist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","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=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}