{"id":5731,"date":"2023-08-04T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T02:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2023-08-05T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T02:06:06","slug":"heater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/08\/04\/heater\/","title":{"rendered":"Heater"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Would you like another heater, Ralph?”<\/p>\n

Madge, the waitress, offered to add some hot coffee to Ralph’s half-empty cup on the diner’s linoleum counter. Behind her, racked, were the assorted pies, the lemon meringue with only two slices left.<\/p>\n

“I’ll take some.” Ralph half-smiled. “I guess that’s like you, Madge.”<\/p>\n

“What’d you mean?<\/p>\n

“You like your coffee hot, and your men hotter.”<\/p>\n

Bracing herself on the counter, Madge stared at him. Would Al leave anything more than a 10% tip? What were the chances?<\/p>\n

“I guess we’re a little different. You go for the lukewarm guys, don’t you, Al?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Would you like another heater, Ralph?” Madge, the waitress, offered to add some hot coffee to Ralph’s half-empty cup on the diner’s linoleum counter. Behind her, racked, were the assorted pies, the lemon meringue with only two slices left. “I’ll take some.” Ralph half-smiled. “I guess that’s like you, Madge.” “What’d you mean? “You like […]<\/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":[8612,5328,3704,11783,2436,41,10515,10307,11658,12124,1102,7150,12123,10767,2192],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-chances","tag-counter","tag-cup","tag-david-sydney","tag-diner","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guys","tag-heater","tag-hot-coffee","tag-lemon-meringue","tag-linoleum","tag-men","tag-pies","tag-slices","tag-waitress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","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=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5732,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}