{"id":6182,"date":"2024-09-03T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T03:37:09","slug":"lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/09\/03\/lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cAre you ready?\u201d Tim asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomewhat,\u201d Clara answered, holding a child by the hand. \u201cWho can be? Are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to know like the rest of us,\u201d interjected another neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t be pretty,\u201d Tim struggled, unable to say more.<\/p>\n<p>A shuttle-bus pulled up to take them, along with others. They drove down Main Street. Shock froze their faces. Some sobbed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMother nature started it,\u201d the driver said, shaking his head.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning struck the forest outside town limits. Wind fueled the flames in the direction of their town. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy house is gone,\u201d Clara choked back tears. \u201cYours too, Tim?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAre you ready?\u201d Tim asked. \u201cSomewhat,\u201d Clara answered, holding a child by the hand. \u201cWho can be? Are you?\u201d \u201cYou want to know like the rest of us,\u201d interjected another neighbour. \u201cIt won\u2019t be pretty,\u201d Tim struggled, unable to say more. A shuttle-bus pulled up to take them, along with others. They drove down Main [&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":[2870,5719,3842,5832,812,41,2066,2103,3224,2753,175,6978,3426,3412,12865,1323,1369,12866,275],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-child","tag-driver","tag-faces","tag-flames","tag-forest","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hand","tag-house","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-lightning","tag-main-street","tag-mother-nature","tag-neighbor","tag-shock","tag-shuttle-bus","tag-tears","tag-town","tag-town-limits","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","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=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}