{"id":688,"date":"2012-02-07T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=688"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:48:39","slug":"institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2012\/02\/07\/institution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Institution stood at the top of the hill, perched over the city like a carrion bird. The city sagged below the Institution like heat-festered roadkill. The relationship between the two was a symbiotic one.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph trudged to the Institution hauling the gold and the letters and the scented cadavers. He placed the annual tribute inside the entry and awaited instructions.<\/p>\n<p>The door to his right was slightly ajar so Ralph went to have a look. It was a musty, little-used coat room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not allowed in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ralph shrugged his shoulders and plodded back down to the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Theme from Figment for February 6, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Set a scene inside an institution of some kind (a school, a hospital, a bank). Now take us to a room that only a few people normally have access to (a janitorial closet, the morgue, an executive suite). What happens when someone gets in who shouldn\u2019t be there?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institution stood at the top of the hill, perched over the city like a carrion bird. The city sagged below the Institution like heat-festered roadkill. The relationship between the two was a symbiotic one. Ralph trudged to the Institution hauling the gold and the letters and the scented cadavers. He placed the annual tribute [&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":[990,992,994,955,940,989,993,991,129],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cadaver","tag-carrion-bird","tag-coat-room","tag-figment","tag-gold","tag-institution","tag-roadkill","tag-symbiotic-relationship","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}