{"id":5279,"date":"2022-09-29T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T01:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2022-09-29T18:46:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T01:46:04","slug":"last-ditch-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/09\/29\/last-ditch-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Ditch Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The slave driver\u2019s eagles squawk and shift violently in the wind to dodge the endless barrage of waves crashing against the rocky cliff\u2019s edge. By our scent, they know we are close, but they can\u2019t see us. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt must\u2019ve been an illusion, pa,\u201d says my son. His tunic is soaked by sea and sweat as he rips oar against cruel wave. \u201cThe heat makes one see things while fishing. Perhaps there\u2019s no cave.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I struggle to speak and strain through the invisibility incantation I have surrounding us and our boat, \u201cRow boy! It was no illusion. It\u2019s our only salvation.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/fervidfables.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Martinez<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slave driver\u2019s eagles squawk and shift violently in the wind to dodge the endless barrage of waves crashing against the rocky cliff\u2019s edge. By our scent, they know we are close, but they can\u2019t see us. \u201cIt must\u2019ve been an illusion, pa,\u201d says my son. His tunic is soaked by sea and sweat as [&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":[11348,1460,1041,819,11347,6781,6547,6595,41,1268,1775,6513,11352,11345,11351,11349,7139,2140,1289,11346,1730,3134,11350,3027,275],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-barrage","tag-boat","tag-cave","tag-cliff","tag-eagles","tag-edge","tag-effort","tag-fishing","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heat","tag-illusion","tag-incantation","tag-invisibility","tag-john-martinez","tag-oar","tag-pa","tag-salvation","tag-scent","tag-sea","tag-slave-driver","tag-son","tag-sweat","tag-tunic","tag-wave","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279","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=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5280,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions\/5280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}