{"id":5080,"date":"2022-05-03T23:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2022-05-03T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T06:27:47","slug":"the-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/05\/03\/the-diver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The diver stood before us holding a thimble too small to fit on the pinkie of either hand. The thimble was filled with water, much less than what could swish around a small mouth after brushing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will dive into this,\u201d he announced, to our astonishment. He then climbed a ladder that went up into the clouds. <\/p>\n<p>He was so tiny we could not see him. If we had looked away at any point, we would have never believed him to even be there.<\/p>\n<p>Seconds later, the water in the thimble moved.<\/p>\n<p>We looked down to see him inside, smiling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ran Walker <\/p>\n<p>Ran is the author of 25 books. He teaches creative writing at Hampton University in Virginia. He can be reached via his website, www.ranwalker.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diver stood before us holding a thimble too small to fit on the pinkie of either hand. The thimble was filled with water, much less than what could swish around a small mouth after brushing. \u201cI will dive into this,\u201d he announced, to our astonishment. He then climbed a ladder that went up into [&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":[10990,10989,1060,10987,41,2066,6965,6051,2212,9667,6758,8665,5995,10988,177],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-astonishment","tag-brushing","tag-clouds","tag-diver","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hand","tag-inside","tag-ladder","tag-mouth","tag-pinkie","tag-point","tag-ran-walker","tag-seconds","tag-thimble","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","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=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}