{"id":6584,"date":"2025-08-20T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:51:20","slug":"forks-in-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/08\/20\/forks-in-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Forks In The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Darcy and I stare at Walter through shatterproof glass at the prison during visiting hours.<\/p>\n<p>Walter\u2019s handcuffed knuckles, pressing against his temples, are white. \u201cToasting forks?! Those thirty-inch-long skewers you use for toasting marshmallows?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nod. \u201cI put them out with the salad at dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow could you?\u201d he sputters.<\/p>\n<p>Darcy grimaces. \u201cSorry, guys. I didn\u2019t mean to get expelled for jabbing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not your fault, Darce,\u201d Walter says. \u201cMom should\u2019ve known better than to give you the exact weapons I used for the trail of destruction that landed me here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sigh. \u201cI was trying to normalize them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Susmita Ramani<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darcy and I stare at Walter through shatterproof glass at the prison during visiting hours. Walter\u2019s handcuffed knuckles, pressing against his temples, are white. \u201cToasting forks?! Those thirty-inch-long skewers you use for toasting marshmallows?\u201d I nod. \u201cI put them out with the salad at dinner.\u201d \u201cHow could you?\u201d he sputters. Darcy grimaces. \u201cSorry, guys. I [&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":[338,6693,13348,41,10515,2564,13073,1023,995,1500,13531,13533,10066,11019,13534,13532,1256],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-dinner","tag-fault","tag-forks","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guys","tag-knuckles","tag-marshmellows","tag-mom","tag-prison","tag-salad","tag-shatterproof-glass","tag-skewers","tag-susmita-ramani","tag-temples","tag-trail-of-destruction","tag-visiting-hours","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584","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=6584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6585,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6584\/revisions\/6585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}