{"id":4968,"date":"2022-02-22T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2022-02-22T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T07:17:00","slug":"ties-that-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/02\/22\/ties-that-bind\/","title":{"rendered":"Ties That Bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sam always used rubber bands to hold up her ponytail; I&#8217;m still finding them around the apartment, lost during sex, or when she shook out her hair after a long day at work, or in any of a dozen different ways. The trust between us proved less elastic, and snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Everything came undone when she found that bobby pin in the bathroom. I told her that Jodie had just needed to wash bird crap out of her hair when she dropped by, but clearly I wasn&#8217;t believed. Now, in every sense, there&#8217;s no way left to hold things in place.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Alastair Millar <\/p>\n<p>Alastair is an archaeologist by training, a translator by trade, and a nerd by nature. His work can be found at https:\/\/linktr.ee\/alastairmillar and he lurks on Twitter @skriptorium.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam always used rubber bands to hold up her ponytail; I&#8217;m still finding them around the apartment, lost during sex, or when she shook out her hair after a long day at work, or in any of a dozen different ways. The trust between us proved less elastic, and snapped. Everything came undone when she [&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":[10779,1467,814,10781,9599,3996,41,1291,7787,9722,10780,6622,2569,8102,9429,2098,168],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alastair-millar","tag-apartment","tag-bathroom","tag-bird-crap","tag-bobby-pin","tag-dozen","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-place","tag-ponytail","tag-rubber-bands","tag-sense","tag-sex","tag-things","tag-ties","tag-trust","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","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=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}