{"id":5658,"date":"2023-06-12T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2023-06-13T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T00:56:59","slug":"career-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/06\/12\/career-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cGood work today, Boys,\u201d Bud Peptide said to his sons, Spud and Pud. \u201cWe finished plowing the back 40. You fellas deserve a reward.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bud pulled some bills from his wallet and handed them to Spud. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHead into town and buy yourselves your first drink at the Short Twig Saloon.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The brothers rode into town, burst through the saloon door and bellied up to the bar. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo beers,\u201d Spud said to the bartender. <\/p>\n<p>The bartender looked the boys over. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t you read?\u201d he said, pointing to the sign on the door. \u201cNO MINORS!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not miners,\u201d Pud said. \u201cWe\u2019re farmers!\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lee Hammerschmidt <\/p>\n<p>Lee is a Visual Artist\/Writer\/Troubadour. He is the author of the short story collections, A Hole Of My Own, It\u2019s Noir O\u2019clock Somewhere, For Richer or Noirer, Flash Wounds, and Pulp Stains. Check out his hit parade on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MrLeehammer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood work today, Boys,\u201d Bud Peptide said to his sons, Spud and Pud. \u201cWe finished plowing the back 40. You fellas deserve a reward.\u201d Bud pulled some bills from his wallet and handed them to Spud. \u201cHead into town and buy yourselves your first drink at the Short Twig Saloon.\u201d The brothers rode into town, [&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":[11989,214,11992,3817,517,11988,3703,8584,11990,41,10275,11994,11993,3174,2714,2785,2396,1369,11991,168],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-back-forty","tag-bar","tag-beers","tag-bills","tag-brothers","tag-career-day","tag-drink","tag-farmers","tag-fellas","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lee-hammerschmidt","tag-miners","tag-minors","tag-reward","tag-saloon","tag-sign","tag-sons","tag-town","tag-twig","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","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=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}