{"id":6637,"date":"2025-10-14T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:20:11","slug":"while-at-als-counter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/10\/14\/while-at-als-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"While At AL&#8217;S Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cOtto, look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stan and Otto were at AL&#8217;S DINER, side by side at the uneven linoleum counter. Stan pointed with his spoon. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that a fly in my soup?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both studied the chipped bowl and the small thing squirming in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeems more like an ant, Stan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith wings?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure&#8230;Lots of ants have them. Is that the chicken soup?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, clam chowder\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All soups looked alike at AL&#8217;S. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cClam, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They stopped eating. Otto decided against dipping his fingers in the bowl to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s an ant, Stan&#8230;The flies don&#8217;t seem to enjoy Al&#8217;s chowder.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOtto, look at that.\u201d Stan and Otto were at AL&#8217;S DINER, side by side at the uneven linoleum counter. Stan pointed with his spoon. \u201cIs that a fly in my soup?\u201d Both studied the chipped bowl and the small thing squirming in it. \u201cSeems more like an ant, Stan.\u201d \u201cWith wings?\u201d \u201cSure&#8230;Lots of ants have [&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":[3410,6108,6416,13620,13619,5328,11783,2436,2749,1602,13618,1553,12737,2647,6765,2361],"class_list":["post-6637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ant","tag-bowl","tag-chicken-soup","tag-clam","tag-clam-chowder","tag-counter","tag-david-sydney","tag-diner","tag-fingers","tag-fly","tag-linoleum-counter","tag-soup","tag-soups","tag-spoon","tag-thing","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637","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=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}