{"id":5277,"date":"2022-09-28T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5277"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:47:20","slug":"its-not-my-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/09\/28\/its-not-my-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not My Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Can you please complete your homework?\u2019 the frustrated dad nagged his uninspired child, for three consecutive days, rather the Sony PlayStation grasped her attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hmm\u2019 this being her only response.<\/p>\n<p>On the fourth day, the exasperated father was summoned to the principal\u2019s office, knowing full well that he would be questioned regarding his child\u2019s tardiness, he braced himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dear Mr. So and So, it saddens us to summon you to school like this,\u2019 the Headmistress began to berate him, \u2018your child has complained to us regarding her inability to complete her homework due to you occupying her time after school.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Imraan Ganie<\/p>\n<p>Imraan is a seasoned technologist, father of 3, and a lyrical addict who writes short stories, poetry, and limericks in his spare time. His quirky take on life, inspired by his curiously unconventional life experiences lead to twists of humour and tales that are always entertaining. Imraan lives on the Southern Coast of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. Imraan has two short stories published in 2021 in an anthology called Taxi through Mzansi featuring short stories by twenty of South Africa\u2019s finest authors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Can you please complete your homework?\u2019 the frustrated dad nagged his uninspired child, for three consecutive days, rather the Sony PlayStation grasped her attention. \u2018Hmm\u2019 this being her only response. On the fourth day, the exasperated father was summoned to the principal\u2019s office, knowing full well that he would be questioned regarding his child\u2019s tardiness, [&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":[6298,2870,1024,7022,1350,6693,41,11344,4748,11341,9033,186,2956,131,11342,11343,1109],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-attention","tag-child","tag-dad","tag-days","tag-father","tag-fault","tag-guest-contributor","tag-headmistress","tag-homework","tag-imraan-ganie","tag-inability","tag-office","tag-principal","tag-school","tag-sony-playstation","tag-tardiness","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","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=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}