{"id":842,"date":"2012-07-12T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=842"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:25:15","slug":"plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2012\/07\/12\/plague\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No one noticed as the epidemic became incipient. Even as people started dying from the new strain of bacteria, the entire society was oblivious.<\/p>\n<p>I was the only one who could see what was happening and nobody would listen to me.<\/p>\n<p>You might think I&#8217;m crazy and when the story ends it will turn out I&#8217;m inside the locked cell of an insane asylum. I wish that were the case.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;m the last man on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>I did some research after the plague. The most aggressive characteristic of the disease is that it shuts down a person&#8217;s mind so they are unaware of being sick. I was the only person to have an immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the bacteria, it evolved too well and now there are no more hosts for it. It&#8217;s as extinct as the human race will be after my death.<\/p>\n<p>This is no solace for me.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Today&#8217;s story deviates in that it is exactly 150 words instead of 100. It&#8217;s something of an epic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one noticed as the epidemic became incipient. Even as people started dying from the new strain of bacteria, the entire society was oblivious. I was the only one who could see what was happening and nobody would listen to me. You might think I&#8217;m crazy and when the story ends it will turn out [&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":[1259,1262,1265,295,1260,1263,1261,791,1264,1080],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-150-word-story","tag-bacteria","tag-crazy","tag-death","tag-epidemic","tag-human-race","tag-immunity","tag-insane-asylum","tag-last-man-on-earth","tag-plague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}