{"id":6806,"date":"2026-02-12T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:12:25","slug":"old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2026\/02\/12\/old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve been coming to this park for months. Today an elderly man I\u2019ve never seen before wearing tan khaki pants that are too long, sits next to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautiful morning, I\u2019ve been coming here since I was a boy. I still remember the fruit stand that used to be across the street on the corner. Best oranges I ever tasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just having lost my job, I\u2019m not in the mood for conversation and leave. Then I realized I forgot my cell phone on the bench. <\/p>\n<p>When I return, the man is gone, and an orange sits next to my phone.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been coming to this park for months. Today an elderly man I\u2019ve never seen before wearing tan khaki pants that are too long, sits next to me. \u201cBeautiful morning, I\u2019ve been coming here since I was a boy. I still remember the fruit stand that used to be across the street on the corner. [&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":[2696,250,6445,983,3069,8748,13898,589,13897,5521,2921,1699,2129,1692],"class_list":["post-6806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bench","tag-boy","tag-cell-phone","tag-conversation","tag-corner","tag-elderly-man","tag-fruit-stand","tag-job","tag-khaki-pants","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-morning","tag-old-man","tag-oranges","tag-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806","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=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6807,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}