{"id":6515,"date":"2025-06-26T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T04:15:17","slug":"isolated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/06\/26\/isolated\/","title":{"rendered":"Isolated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>House manager Morgan came into my room. He sniffed the air and looked disapproving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs Towne,\u201d he began, \u201cThe Cobra Committee has issued an edict that there are to be no more visitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mind. Old age had already picked off my friends and family like a sniper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you cannot go out,\u201d he added. \u201cYou&#8217;ll just have to wait here until you die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He smiled to show it was a joke. Hilarious. I was truly isolated now. The other residents were deaf or dumb or their brain was out to lunch, or all three.<\/p>\n<p>Then the telephone rang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Derek McMillan<\/p>\n<p>Derek is the writer of &#8220;Murder from Beyond the Grave&#8221; available on eBay.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House manager Morgan came into my room. He sniffed the air and looked disapproving. \u201cMrs Towne,\u201d he began, \u201cThe Cobra Committee has issued an edict that there are to be no more visitors.\u201d I didn&#8217;t mind. Old age had already picked off my friends and family like a sniper. \u201cAnd you cannot go out,\u201d he [&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":[2336,667,13400,11147,12584,13401,614,116,41,212,968,205,9805,7871,2123,2882],"class_list":["post-6515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-affair","tag-brain","tag-cobra","tag-committee","tag-derek-mcmillan","tag-edict","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-guest-contributor","tag-joke","tag-lunch","tag-old-age","tag-residents","tag-sniper","tag-telephone","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515","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=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6516,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}