{"id":6412,"date":"2025-03-31T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2025-03-31T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:38:56","slug":"dont-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/03\/31\/dont-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I tried to warn him. Several times. Maybe that was the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen to your buddy. She\u2019s not the one for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he hauled butt down the aisle. All I saw was the dimpled boy from our youth slipping away, oblivious of the cliff ahead.<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse. Under the chuppah, our hero someway somehow managed to screw up his only freaking duty: stomping the bejesus out of a glass goblet \u2014 missed it by that much.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Twas a harbinger of things that came.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t spoken to me in years.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I shouldn\u2019t have said I told you so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Thow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to warn him. Several times. Maybe that was the problem. \u201cListen to your buddy. She\u2019s not the one for you.\u201d Instead, he hauled butt down the aisle. All I saw was the dimpled boy from our youth slipping away, oblivious of the cliff ahead. It gets worse. Under the chuppah, our hero someway [&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":[5553,13256,250,9820,6792,13255,819,13254,1286,2133,13257,41,12716,196,5895,5460,266],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aisle","tag-bejesus","tag-boy","tag-buddy","tag-butt","tag-chuppah","tag-cliff","tag-david-thow","tag-duty","tag-glass","tag-goblet","tag-guest-contributor","tag-harbinger","tag-hero","tag-problem","tag-years","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","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=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}