{"id":5826,"date":"2023-11-08T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T06:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2023-11-08T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T06:24:22","slug":"for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/11\/08\/for-the-record\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cShe was attractive. Cute face.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacts, please,\u201d the officer cringed, pausing his pen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack-rimmed glasses, plum lipstick and&#8230;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was stolen?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cellphone. One minute in my hand. The next, gone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> A woman was called to the counter by the second officer on duty. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cReporting a theft,\u201d she announced. \u201cThief had salt and pepper hair.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhat was taken?\u201d <\/p>\n<p> \u201cMy cellphone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The officers compared the complainants with the details given. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cYou two realize making false claims is an offence,\u201d one said. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe can let you go this time,\u201d the other scolded. \u201cGo home and make up or see a marriage counsellor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction regardless of the season or location she finds herself in.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe was attractive. Cute face.\u201d \u201cFacts, please,\u201d the officer cringed, pausing his pen. \u201cBlack-rimmed glasses, plum lipstick and&#8230;\u201d \u201cWhat was stolen?\u201d \u201cMy cellphone. One minute in my hand. The next, gone.\u201d A woman was called to the counter by the second officer on duty. \u201cReporting a theft,\u201d she announced. \u201cThief had salt and pepper hair.\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":[6258,12281,5328,7380,1286,2838,12279,12282,2551,41,1291,134,3224,6601,12284,12283,3211,684,3624,2668,12280,571,398,1109,2382],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cellphone","tag-complainants","tag-counter","tag-details","tag-duty","tag-face","tag-facts","tag-false-claim","tag-glasses","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-home","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-lipstick","tag-marriage-counselor","tag-offence","tag-officer","tag-pen","tag-plum","tag-record","tag-salt-and-pepper","tag-theft","tag-thief","tag-time","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","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=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}