{"id":679,"date":"2012-01-31T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T08:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=679"},"modified":"2012-02-14T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T10:05:12","slug":"life-death-william-farthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2012\/01\/31\/life-death-william-farthing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Death Of William Farthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When William Farthing was born, his skin was marked with a dark spot everyone said resembled a coffee bean. His father viewed the mark auspiciously and purchased a large coffee plantation in the colonies.<\/p>\n<p>When his father died of syphilis, William Farthing inherited the plantation, the only item of value left of his family fortune. He moved to the colonies and took over management himself.<\/p>\n<p>When William Farthing died, he was penniless and friendless, his woebegone life mercifully at an end. The undertaker noticed the dark spot on his skin, and remarked that it looked rather like a horse&#8217;s vagina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Theme From Figment for Jan. 27, 2012<\/p>\n<p>The song \u201c The Three Bells\u201d tells the story of Little Jimmy Brown (read the lyrics here).  In  each of the song\u2019s three verses, a milestone in Jimmy\u2019s life\u2014his birth, wedding, death\u2014is marked by the sounding of church bells (hence the song\u2019s title). Choose a similar symbol that recurs three times in a character\u2019s life and tell that character\u2019s life story in three parts\u2014could be chapters, stanzas, verses, paragraphs.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When William Farthing was born, his skin was marked with a dark spot everyone said resembled a coffee bean. His father viewed the mark auspiciously and purchased a large coffee plantation in the colonies. When his father died of syphilis, William Farthing inherited the plantation, the only item of value left of his family fortune. [&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":[228,971,972,974,955,970,973],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bankruptcy","tag-coffee-bean","tag-coffee-plantation","tag-colonies","tag-figment","tag-horses-vagina","tag-syphilis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}