{"id":6641,"date":"2025-10-16T22:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:42:32","slug":"held-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/10\/16\/held-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Held Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t take the \u2018Express Lane\u2019,\u201d Paul warned. \u201cLast time chickens slowed us down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim frowned. \u201cDarn slowpokes! Afraid to drive fast, should stay out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNa, I\u2019m talking real chickens,\u201d Paul continued. \u201cEngine trouble. Took a while to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe was lucky. Truck behind had new barbecues. Behind him, delivery van with bbq sauce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim listened, keenly interested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet this, they set up on the roadside. Best supper ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou lucky no cops showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo did. Said \u2018twas illegal what we\u2019s doin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019s arrested?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNope. After two rounds of chicken, they thanked us. Took off on their bikes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t take the \u2018Express Lane\u2019,\u201d Paul warned. \u201cLast time chickens slowed us down.\u201d Tim frowned. \u201cDarn slowpokes! Afraid to drive fast, should stay out.\u201d \u201cNa, I\u2019m talking real chickens,\u201d Paul continued. \u201cEngine trouble. Took a while to get going.\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d \u201cWe was lucky. Truck behind had new barbecues. Behind him, delivery van with bbq sauce.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13630,13632,13633,3730,197,13631,13629,13627,3224,9676,13628,5381],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barbecues","tag-bbq-sauce","tag-bikes","tag-chickens","tag-cops","tag-delivery-van","tag-engine-trouble","tag-express-lane","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-roadside","tag-slowpokes","tag-supper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","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=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6642,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}