{"id":5275,"date":"2022-09-27T23:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T06:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2022-09-27T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T06:04:41","slug":"smoke-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/09\/27\/smoke-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Platero And I: Smoke-Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There is El Boncalo, Platero. It is too late now to turn around without insulting him. <\/p>\n<p>Look, that eternal hand-rolled cigarette is dangling from his lower lip again. It just smells awful. <\/p>\n<p>Whenever I see him, I think of the time when I was a young man and thought I could impress the girls coming out of the sewing workshop in Calle de la Escula by lighting a cigarette with an American lighter, just like a movie star. <\/p>\n<p>What a fool I was back then, Platero. <\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t miss smoking, much like some other things aging makes superfluous.  <\/p>\n<p>Apparently. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Herv\u00e9 Suys <\/p>\n<p>Herv\u00e9 (\u00b01968 \u2013 Ronse, Belgium) started writing short stories whilst recovering from a sports injury and he hasn\u2019t stopped since. Generally he writes them hatless and barefooted.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is El Boncalo, Platero. It is too late now to turn around without insulting him. Look, that eternal hand-rolled cigarette is dangling from his lower lip again. It just smells awful. Whenever I see him, I think of the time when I was a young man and thought I could impress the girls coming [&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":[11339,1820,5505,1713,41,9028,11340,11338,11002,796,2234,223,8102,1109,5264,6619],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-calle-de-la-escula","tag-cigarette","tag-fool","tag-girls","tag-guest-contributor","tag-herve-suys","tag-lighter","tag-lower-lip","tag-movie-star","tag-sewing","tag-smoke","tag-smoking","tag-things","tag-time","tag-workshop","tag-young-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","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=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}