{"id":5830,"date":"2023-11-10T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T21:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2023-11-10T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T21:33:55","slug":"pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/11\/10\/pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bill picked mushroom slices off the boxed pizza, grimacing, stacking them. <\/p>\n<p>Sadie watched. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong, Honeybun?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMushrooms. They don\u2019t belong on pizza. My ex-wife knew that. They\u2019re like human ears.\u201d Bill shuddered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry!\u201d Sadie sniffled, blue eyes pooling on her freckled face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be a baby.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She was 20. Their infant son lay in the bedroom, drooling on Bill\u2019s pillow, fitful with eczema. His ex Patsy, thinner now, lived in her own divorce trailer, screwing her burly handyman. Grown kids, not speaking to Bill. Everyone, broken. Bill sighed at the pile of ears. \u201cGrowing you up, it takes time, Sadie.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Nicole Brogdon <\/p>\n<p>Nicole is a trauma therapist in Austin TX, interested in strugglers and stories everywhere. Her flash fiction appears in Flash Frontier, Bending Genres, 101Words, Bright Flash, Dribble Drabble Review, Centifictionist, and elsewhere.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill picked mushroom slices off the boxed pizza, grimacing, stacking them. Sadie watched. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong, Honeybun?\u201d \u201cMushrooms. They don\u2019t belong on pizza. My ex-wife knew that. They\u2019re like human ears.\u201d Bill shuddered. \u201cSorry!\u201d Sadie sniffled, blue eyes pooling on her freckled face. \u201cDon\u2019t be a baby.\u201d She was 20. Their infant son lay in the [&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":[758,1359,12292,2869,2538,12296,9435,2838,41,4471,12293,12294,12295,1221,12291,12290,9448,2939,12071,10767,6631],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-baby","tag-bedroom","tag-boxed-pizza","tag-divorce","tag-ears","tag-eczema","tag-ex-wife","tag-face","tag-guest-contributor","tag-handyman","tag-honeybun","tag-human-ears","tag-infant-son","tag-kids","tag-mushroom","tag-nicole-brogdon","tag-pile","tag-pillow","tag-pizza","tag-slices","tag-trailer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","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=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}