{"id":6500,"date":"2025-06-09T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:33:02","slug":"a-diner-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/06\/09\/a-diner-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diner Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ralph and Rayette were at breakfast, with Ralph treating. He called the waiter over to their booth with its plywood table top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs something the matter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ll say&#8230;Rayette, here, just saw another fly by her oatmeal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ralph had the eggs, and Rayette the oatmeal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of place is this that has so many flies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany? What\u2019d you mean by \u2018many\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rayette said she saw about five, maybe six of them.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissively the waiter frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix? You think six flies is a lot? You should see the number of \u2018em in the kitchen&#8230;Especially around the pot of oatmeal.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph and Rayette were at breakfast, with Ralph treating. He called the waiter over to their booth with its plywood table top. \u201cIs something the matter?\u201d \u201cI&#8217;ll say&#8230;Rayette, here, just saw another fly by her oatmeal.&#8221; Ralph had the eggs, and Rayette the oatmeal. \u201cWhat kind of place is this that has so many flies?\u201d [&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":[2441,733,11783,2436,1099,5896,1602,1097,6488,13182,7915,13379,6689,5895,13380,6858],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-booth","tag-breakfast","tag-david-sydney","tag-diner","tag-eggs","tag-flies","tag-fly","tag-kitchen","tag-number","tag-oatmeal","tag-places","tag-plywood","tag-pot","tag-problem","tag-table-top","tag-waiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","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=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6501,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions\/6501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}