{"id":6853,"date":"2026-03-12T17:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:58:37","slug":"king-of-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2026\/03\/12\/king-of-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"King Of The Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Every afternoon, Marcus ruled the court. Sneakers squeaked as he crossed defenders, launched impossible threes, and hammered dunks that rattled the rim. His friends groaned while commentators crowned him a legend. He knew every hesitation, every perfect release, every seam in the opponent&#8217;s defense. He was lightning\u2014untouchable, unstoppable, airborne.<\/p>\n<p>When the final buzzer sounded, the crowd\u2019s roar thinned to a mechanical hum. \u201cMarcus, dinner\u2019s ready,\u201d his mom called from the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing,\u201d he answered, while unlocking the brakes on his wheelchair, gripping the rims of the wheels and pushing himself back from his desk. Beyond the doorway, reality waits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor E. Barnes<\/p>\n<p>E. has work published at A Story In 100 Words, Spillwords, The Purple Pen, The Haven, and Medium.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every afternoon, Marcus ruled the court. Sneakers squeaked as he crossed defenders, launched impossible threes, and hammered dunks that rattled the rim. His friends groaned while commentators crowned him a legend. He knew every hesitation, every perfect release, every seam in the opponent&#8217;s defense. He was lightning\u2014untouchable, unstoppable, airborne. When the final buzzer sounded, 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":[2666,3722,13980,841,1141,13977,2534,2265,338,3029,13979,8092,13982,41,5500,2844,347,1097,3018,2753,1023,4945,1774,11718,12919,13983,13981,2974,13978,5959,5616],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-afternoon","tag-brakes","tag-commentators","tag-court","tag-crowd","tag-defenders","tag-defense","tag-desk","tag-dinner","tag-doorway","tag-dunks","tag-e-barnes","tag-final-buzzer","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hesitation","tag-hum","tag-king","tag-kitchen","tag-legend","tag-lightning","tag-mom","tag-opponent","tag-reality","tag-release","tag-rim","tag-rims","tag-seam","tag-sneakers","tag-threes","tag-wheelchair","tag-wheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","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=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}