{"id":6801,"date":"2026-02-10T12:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:56:38","slug":"working-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2026\/02\/10\/working-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He has a fear of hot Danish.  When the bakery shop opens its accusing awning in the morning, he retreats to avoid notice by the shop\u2019s pastries.  Open-air breakfast shops infuriate him. In his infrequent sleep, he is haunted by the idea of smothering icing, steam welling into a wall of baker\u2019s avenging anger.  The syrup run-off loitering in the pan.  He wakes with his cheeks and tongue burning, the rift of his nose aflame, a gooey lump of heat assaulting his eyes from the backside.  He tells himself:  they will cool.  When they do, he will conquer them all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpoyner.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Poyner<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has a fear of hot Danish. When the bakery shop opens its accusing awning in the morning, he retreats to avoid notice by the shop\u2019s pastries. Open-air breakfast shops infuriate him. In his infrequent sleep, he is haunted by the idea of smothering icing, steam welling into a wall of baker\u2019s avenging anger. 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":[1616,13892,6313,13895,10768,733,2093,13890,2720,41,1268,13894,6362,10738,5640,2211,8856,9353,13893,13896,3203,1044,1508,8276,3370,138,13891],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-anger","tag-awning","tag-backside","tag-baker","tag-bakery","tag-breakfast","tag-cheeks","tag-danish","tag-eyes","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heat","tag-icing","tag-idea","tag-ken-poyner","tag-lump","tag-nose","tag-notice","tag-pan","tag-pastries","tag-rift","tag-shop","tag-sleep","tag-steam","tag-syrup","tag-tongue","tag-wall","tag-working-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6803,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}