{"id":5738,"date":"2023-08-09T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T21:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2023-08-09T14:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T21:48:53","slug":"good-boy-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/08\/09\/good-boy-charlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Boy, Charlie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Even the dog knew it was a mistake. So much had happened at the lake house, and yet, nothing ever changed. Her father stood at the end of the dock, slouching.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie whined and wagged, as if to say, \u201cReally? Again?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDidn\u2019t think you\u2019d come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want her ashes. Then I\u2019ll leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stared, eyes piercing, his face sharp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour mother wanted to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother wanted to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jayne released Charlie from his leash. He burst forward, sending her father off the dock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood boy,\u201d Jayne praised Charlie, wiping the water from her face.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>From Guest Contributor Kate McGovern<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the dog knew it was a mistake. So much had happened at the lake house, and yet, nothing ever changed. Her father stood at the end of the dock, slouching. Charlie whined and wagged, as if to say, \u201cReally? Again?!\u201d \u201cDidn\u2019t think you\u2019d come,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want her ashes. Then I\u2019ll leave.\u201d [&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":[5026,4439,213,2838,1350,12138,41,12136,12137,2742,73,5924,177],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ashes","tag-dock","tag-dog","tag-face","tag-father","tag-good-boy","tag-guest-contributor","tag-kate-mcgovern","tag-lake-house","tag-mistake","tag-mother","tag-safe","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738","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=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}