{"id":6318,"date":"2024-12-26T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T02:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2024-12-26T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T02:50:41","slug":"next-for-mel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/12\/26\/next-for-mel\/","title":{"rendered":"Next For Mel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cChoose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d Mel was confused. It was 3 AM. Just moments before, he&#8217;d been pleasantly dreaming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don&#8217;t know what \u2018choose\u2019 means?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuh?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCHOOSE, MEL!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The irritated voice seemed to come from every direction, as though from out of a whirlwind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAND MAKE IT SOMETHING INANIMATE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTIME&#8217;S UP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mel&#8217;s life \u2013 if it could be called that \u2013 was over.<\/p>\n<p>The angel had others to visit that Thursday and more important places to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCouldn&#8217;t I be a dog, or a goldfish?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cREINCARNATION&#8217;S MAINLY INTO LIFELESS OBJECTS, MEL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t realize. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike&#8230;into an old basketball?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSO BE IT!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChoose.\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d Mel was confused. It was 3 AM. Just moments before, he&#8217;d been pleasantly dreaming. \u201cYou don&#8217;t know what \u2018choose\u2019 means?\u201d \u201cHuh?\u201d \u201cCHOOSE, MEL!\u201d The irritated voice seemed to come from every direction, as though from out of a whirlwind. \u201cAND MAKE IT SOMETHING INANIMATE.\u201d This was it. \u201cTIME&#8217;S UP.\u201d Mel&#8217;s life \u2013 if [&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":[1494,75,11783,5102,213,8187,41,2191,4621,7357,1244,7915,13092,1109,2362,13091],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-angel","tag-basketball","tag-david-sydney","tag-direction","tag-dog","tag-goldfish","tag-guest-contributor","tag-life","tag-moments","tag-objects","tag-people","tag-places","tag-reincarnation","tag-time","tag-voice","tag-whirlwind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","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=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}