{"id":6511,"date":"2025-06-18T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:36:11","slug":"a-far-worse-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/06\/18\/a-far-worse-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Far Worse Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, your majesty,\u201d squeaked mouse, prostrate in the straw.<\/p>\n<p>The great lion sighed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saved you, I laughed at your offer. Now I am caught in this cage I can laugh no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brothers and sisters will set you free,\u201d promised the tiny mouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cage is electrified,\u201d explained the lion. \u201cChew these bars and you\u2019ll die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you are fated then to be a head on a wall?\u201d wailed the mouse in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo little one,\u201d sighed the lion. \u201cMy fate\u2019s far worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Circus Train gave a shrill whistle as it pulled into the station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Tim Law<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, your majesty,\u201d squeaked mouse, prostrate in the straw. The great lion sighed. \u201cWhen I saved you, I laughed at your offer. Now I am caught in this cage I can laugh no more.\u201d \u201cMy brothers and sisters will set you free,\u201d promised the tiny mouse. \u201cThis cage is electrified,\u201d explained the lion. \u201cChew [&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":[4498,517,4611,172,13396,673,41,3766,10509,6721,2995,4696,3297,6518,13395,138,1769],"class_list":["post-6511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bars","tag-brothers","tag-cage","tag-circus","tag-circus-train","tag-fate","tag-guest-contributor","tag-head","tag-lion","tag-majesty","tag-mouse","tag-sisters","tag-station","tag-straw","tag-tim-law","tag-wall","tag-whistle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511","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=6511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}