{"id":6677,"date":"2025-11-17T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:10:50","slug":"muted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/11\/17\/muted\/","title":{"rendered":"Muted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Late one night in a foreign town, I walked past two men just inside a dark alley. The larger one had the other pushed up against a wall with a knife under his chin. The smaller man looked at me with pleading, terror-filled eyes. When the larger man jerked to follow his gaze, I hurried beyond them up the street. No one else was around to turn to for help. I had no cell phone and no idea where the nearest police station was. So I just continued on my way, hands trembling, head down: voiceless, derelict, abandoning all rectitude.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor William Cass<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late one night in a foreign town, I walked past two men just inside a dark alley. The larger one had the other pushed up against a wall with a knife under his chin. The smaller man looked at me with pleading, terror-filled eyes. When the larger man jerked to follow his gaze, I hurried [&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":[6445,4519,13684,2720,41,3766,6691,6362,1735,7150,2665,7606,13685,1971,1369,138,7603,13683],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cell-phone","tag-chin","tag-dark-alley","tag-eyes","tag-guest-contributor","tag-head","tag-help","tag-idea","tag-knife","tag-men","tag-night","tag-police-station","tag-rectitude","tag-street","tag-town","tag-wall","tag-way","tag-william-cass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","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=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}