{"id":5493,"date":"2023-03-01T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:07:48","slug":"platero-and-i-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/03\/01\/platero-and-i-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Platero And I: Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have always known my father as a man with a beard, Platero.<\/p>\n<p>He was a proud man\u2014always mounted the fiercest stallion, never a simple donkey like you.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes saw him standing in front of the mirror with small scissors to remove rebellious or \u2013 with years passing \u2013 white hairs.<\/p>\n<p>As a child I thought it was a fake beard, but I never risked tugging it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the customs of this country it is up to the eldest son to remove the beard of the father, the undertaker said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what, Platero, it was real after all.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom 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>I have always known my father as a man with a beard, Platero. He was a proud man\u2014always mounted the fiercest stallion, never a simple donkey like you. I sometimes saw him standing in front of the mirror with small scissors to remove rebellious or \u2013 with years passing \u2013 white hairs. As a child [&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":[4305,2870,3289,11725,142,1350,41,7548,9028,1347,757,1730,11724,11726],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beard","tag-child","tag-country","tag-customs","tag-donkey","tag-father","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hairs","tag-herve-suys","tag-mirror","tag-scissors","tag-son","tag-stallion","tag-undertaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","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=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5494,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}