{"id":5326,"date":"2022-11-05T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2022-11-05T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T20:58:40","slug":"platero-and-i-louisette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/11\/05\/platero-and-i-louisette\/","title":{"rendered":"Platero And I &#8211; Louisette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The girl next door\u2014I keep forgetting her name\u2014just came by, Platero. She&#8217;d found an injured woodcock. <\/p>\n<p>The bird was in bad shape, covered in blood, breathing weakly and blinking irregularly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe&#8217;s going to be fine, isn\u2019t she, mister (she keeps forgetting my name)\u201d, she asked. <\/p>\n<p>Despite her tender age, she may have suspected that the animal endured excruciating pain and that release from suffering proved to be the only possible act of mercy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave her a nice name. Louisette.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad you didn&#8217;t witness it, dear Platero, even though now you&#8217;re sniffing the fluttered and sticky feathers.<br \/>\n<\/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>The girl next door\u2014I keep forgetting her name\u2014just came by, Platero. She&#8217;d found an injured woodcock. The bird was in bad shape, covered in blood, breathing weakly and blinking irregularly. \u201cShe&#8217;s going to be fine, isn\u2019t she, mister (she keeps forgetting my name)\u201d, she asked. Despite her tender age, she may have suspected that the [&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":[11431,1016,9193,2260,281,4770,41,9028,11430,5567,1504,4468,8131,11428,11429],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-act-of-mercy","tag-age","tag-animal","tag-bird","tag-blood","tag-feathers","tag-guest-contributor","tag-herve-suys","tag-mister","tag-name","tag-pain","tag-shape","tag-suffering","tag-the-girl-next-door","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","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=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5327,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}