{"id":5923,"date":"2024-01-23T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5923"},"modified":"2024-01-23T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:25:50","slug":"on-a-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/01\/23\/on-a-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"On A Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>78-year-old Frieda tried to maintain balance while holding her bags. No one offered to exchange places, never mind looked up from a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People used to give an old person a seat,&#8221; said Frieda out loud.<\/p>\n<p>A seat? The young driver had seen nothing like that in his experience. &#8220;Sit here for a minute,&#8221; he offered.<\/p>\n<p>* * * * *<\/p>\n<p>A few blocks after Frieda had driven erratically, a policeman signaled the bus over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enough,&#8221; he demanded, tired of her playing on the sympathy of young drivers to gratify her bus-driving-desires. Enough with the previous warnings. He never trusted little old ladies anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>78-year-old Frieda tried to maintain balance while holding her bags. No one offered to exchange places, never mind looked up from a cell phone. &#8220;People used to give an old person a seat,&#8221; said Frieda out loud. A seat? The young driver had seen nothing like that in his experience. &#8220;Sit here for a minute,&#8221; [&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":[6670,4042,1974,6445,11783,5719,4806,41,12442,12441,7915,3207,2182,9411,10211],"class_list":["post-5923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bags","tag-balance","tag-bus","tag-cell-phone","tag-david-sydney","tag-driver","tag-experience","tag-guest-contributor","tag-little-old-lady","tag-old-person","tag-places","tag-policeman","tag-seat","tag-sympathy","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923","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=5923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}