{"id":5146,"date":"2022-06-23T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T02:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T02:40:57","slug":"if-the-world-stops-while-having-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/06\/23\/if-the-world-stops-while-having-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"If The World Stops While Having Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI felt a lurch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll that spinning. What did it come to?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo leave or not, that is the question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if we need oxygen? Have you any squirreled away?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI confess I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you think? Should we blow this pop stand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always loved that expression. Now we\u2019re saying the world is a pop stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that a yes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to finish my coffee first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember loose change? I still have a quarter. How about heads, we leave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho carries oxygen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon, no doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo ahead. Flip it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere we go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Linda Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Linda&#8217;s stories and poems have appeared in BOMBFIRE, The New Verse News, Microfiction Monday, Six Sentences, and others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI felt a lurch.\u201d \u201cI think it\u2019s stopped.\u201d \u201cAll that spinning. What did it come to?\u201d \u201cTo leave or not, that is the question.\u201d \u201cWhat if we need oxygen? Have you any squirreled away?\u201d \u201cI confess I don\u2019t.\u201d \u201cWhat do you think? Should we blow this pop stand?\u201d \u201cI always loved that expression. Now we\u2019re [&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":[1167,2439,41,9692,7920,11096,11094,56,3246,11095,3488,3880],"class_list":["post-5146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-amazon","tag-coffee","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heads","tag-linda-lowe","tag-loose-change","tag-lurch","tag-oxygen","tag-pop","tag-pop-stand","tag-question","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146","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=5146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5147,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}