{"id":6609,"date":"2025-09-10T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:38:18","slug":"you-know-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/09\/10\/you-know-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cLook, Ed. the Sun&#8217;s coming out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sun, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it had been out, fusing protons into helium nuclei in its core. Daily, unendingly, for billions of years, it kept at it. Cloud cover had temporarily blocked Edna&#8217;s view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the trees. Let&#8217;s go out on the patio, Ed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Squinting, she turned from the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the birds in the trees like to crap on me, Edna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was true. They aimed for Ed&#8217;s head especially. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, Ed. But they&#8217;ll hold off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour hair&#8217;s a mess&#8230;You know birds. They&#8217;d rather splatter you after your shampoo, not now.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLook, Ed. the Sun&#8217;s coming out.\u201d \u201cThe Sun, huh?\u201d Actually, it had been out, fusing protons into helium nuclei in its core. Daily, unendingly, for billions of years, it kept at it. Cloud cover had temporarily blocked Edna&#8217;s view. \u201cLook at the trees. Let&#8217;s go out on the patio, Ed.\u201d Squinting, she turned from the [&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":[1180,13580,7836,11783,41,3766,1367,2448,13579,4645,11895,11000,1531,675,5534,5460],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birds","tag-cloud-cover","tag-core","tag-david-sydney","tag-guest-contributor","tag-head","tag-helium","tag-mess","tag-nuclei","tag-patio","tag-protons","tag-shampoo","tag-sun","tag-trees","tag-view","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","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=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}