{"id":6490,"date":"2025-05-29T21:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:17:22","slug":"something-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/05\/29\/something-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Something To Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThe city is breaking up the encampment, clearing us out,\u201d Olivia said. \u201cI\u2019m leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you going?\u201d asked Simone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJail? Why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn jail I\u2019ll eat every day, have a place to sleep, shower and go to the toilet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simone shivered and pulled the blanket tight around her shoulders. \u201cJail is awful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing old and homeless is worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow will you get sent to jail?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olivia opened her coat, exposing the pistol tucked in her waistband. \u201cI\u2019m robbing the first bank I see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simone watched Olivia walk away and tried to ignore the hunger growling deep in her belly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Robert P. Bishop<\/p>\n<p>Robert, a US Army veteran and former Biology teacher, lives in Tucson, Arizona. His short fiction has appeared in numerous online and print journals.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe city is breaking up the encampment, clearing us out,\u201d Olivia said. \u201cI\u2019m leaving.\u201d \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d asked Simone. \u201cJail.\u201d \u201cJail? Why?\u201d \u201cIn jail I\u2019ll eat every day, have a place to sleep, shower and go to the toilet.\u201d Simone shivered and pulled the blanket tight around her shoulders. \u201cJail is awful.\u201d \u201cBeing old [&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":[2019,7532,3195,1564,5493,13367,41,1075,1683,2426,6909,13369,12249,3833,816,13368],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bank","tag-belly","tag-blanket","tag-city","tag-coat","tag-encampment","tag-guest-contributor","tag-homeless","tag-hunger","tag-jail","tag-pistol","tag-robbing","tag-robert-p-bishop","tag-shower","tag-toilet","tag-waistband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","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=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}