{"id":5955,"date":"2024-02-14T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:23:13","slug":"13-shot-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/02\/14\/13-shot-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;13-Shot\u2019 Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Old West had its deadly gunslingers like &#8216;Wild Bill&#8217; Hickok, Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday. Then, there were poorer slingers like &#8217;13-Shot&#8217; Frank. Yes, Frank had lost 13 consecutive fights and had the bullets in him to prove it. Still, he limped on to his 31st birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Doc Jenkins had pulled him through each time, unable to extract a single slug. He was called by Frank&#8217;s landlord to the bedside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you keep him alive for a couple more rent payments?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Was this the end? Doc Jenkins could handle wounds and fractures. But chronic lead poisoning was another matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old West had its deadly gunslingers like &#8216;Wild Bill&#8217; Hickok, Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday. Then, there were poorer slingers like &#8217;13-Shot&#8217; Frank. Yes, Frank had lost 13 consecutive fights and had the bullets in him to prove it. Still, he limped on to his 31st birthday. Doc Jenkins had pulled him through each [&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":[8197,3467,6926,11783,12478,12477,7213,12481,41,12475,6941,12482,12480,12479,7179,12474,12476,1043,2360],"class_list":["post-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bedside","tag-birthday","tag-bullets","tag-david-sydney","tag-doc","tag-doc-holliday","tag-fights","tag-fractures","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gunslingers","tag-landlord","tag-lead-poisoning","tag-rent-payment","tag-slug","tag-the-end","tag-the-old-west","tag-wild-bill-hickok","tag-wounds","tag-wyatt-earp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","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=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5956,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}