{"id":6533,"date":"2025-07-14T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:55:29","slug":"wheres-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/07\/14\/wheres-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Frank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was 2:30. AL&#8217;S BAR opened at 3:00. Al, sitting by the counter, squinted at the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that you, Edna? We&#8217;re closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The place was poorly lit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know. I just wondered if Frank was here last night. He found some money I hid. I figured he must have gone out drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe he went to the track?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNah, not enough money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t see him. Did you try THE TOP HAT or LEO&#8217;S LOUNGE?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow about TED&#8217;S PLACE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo way, Al. It wasn&#8217;t much money, and you know Frank. He only goes to crummy places like this&#8230;\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 2:30. AL&#8217;S BAR opened at 3:00. Al, sitting by the counter, squinted at the door. \u201cIs that you, Edna? We&#8217;re closed.\u201d The place was poorly lit. \u201cI know. I just wondered if Frank was here last night. He found some money I hid. I figured he must have gone out drinking.\u201d \u201cMaybe 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":[214,5328,11783,41,5931,8630,590,5985,5585],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bar","tag-counter","tag-david-sydney","tag-guest-contributor","tag-last-night","tag-lounge","tag-money","tag-top-hat","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","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=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}