{"id":5377,"date":"2022-12-14T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:13:05","slug":"every-mickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/12\/14\/every-mickle\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Mickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The local Farmers\u2019 Bank went belly up.<\/p>\n<p>It was a cooperative concern, like many in the region. The Secretary of the Bank had taken a loan in her late husband\u2019s name on forged documents. Almost all the staffers either embezzled or connived with the defalcators.<\/p>\n<p>Investors, most of them traders and peasants, were shell-shocked. Some blamed themselves for their imprudence while others huddled indecisively.<\/p>\n<p>Kali, the old woman who sold candles, also had a deposit in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>As the bank\u2019s director exited from his car, she confronted him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s my money?\u201d Kali yelled, catching the man by his collar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Sathyajith Panachikal <\/p>\n<p>Sathyajith. P.S has reconciled himself to the reality that it is impossible to be reborn in an ancient past with a smartphone and internet connection. Currently, he is trying in real earnest to regain the originality he had when he first chanced upon this planet.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local Farmers\u2019 Bank went belly up. It was a cooperative concern, like many in the region. The Secretary of the Bank had taken a loan in her late husband\u2019s name on forged documents. Almost all the staffers either embezzled or connived with the defalcators. Investors, most of them traders and peasants, were shell-shocked. Some [&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":[2019,5361,1814,3243,4163,11525,11530,10032,3418,11519,41,1285,11529,11526,11523,11520,590,2276,11528,11521,11518,11522,11524,11527],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bank","tag-candles","tag-car","tag-collar","tag-concern","tag-defalcators","tag-deposit","tag-director","tag-documents","tag-farmers-bank","tag-guest-contributor","tag-husband","tag-imprudence","tag-investors","tag-loan","tag-mickle","tag-money","tag-old-woman","tag-peasants","tag-region","tag-sathyajith-panachikal","tag-secretary","tag-staffers","tag-traders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","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=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}