{"id":1063,"date":"2018-06-25T09:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2018-06-25T09:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:01:25","slug":"without-a-clue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Without a Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Without-a-Clue-43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-573\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Without-a-Clue-43-300x205.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Without-a-Clue-43-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Without-a-Clue-43-768x524.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Without-a-Clue-43-1024x698.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"Without a Clue-43\" width=\"584\" height=\"399\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cornelius lost his head\u2026just went completely off.\u00a0 One moment he was calm, cool and collected, the next \u2013 frantic and frustrated.\u00a0 He had no idea where he left the darned thing.\u00a0 It was gone without a clue.\u00a0 Sometimes he left it somewhere he wanted to remember to return to later (which was smart, right?) but couldn\u2019t remember where it was later without his head.\u00a0 Some times it just rolled off and bounced away on its own.\u00a0 Somebody said he should get it fixed\u2026 but it wasn\u2019t broken.\u00a0 That\u2019s just the way he was.\u00a0 Besides, what would all the others say if HIS head was permanent\u2026but what does everybody else do when they lose theirs? \u00a0Oh phoooey!!\u00a0 Permanent heads\u2026..that\u2019s just crazy, it just isn\u2019t done!<\/p>\n<p><em>***This image was originally published in Analog Magazine, Sept., 2006.\u00a0\u00a0My short,\u00a0flash-fiction fragment is good for keeping my\u00a0twitter\u00a0friends comfortable.\u00a0 Long posts make them skiddish.\u00a0 You can find my first 3 books by following the link, above,\u00a0to www.sallemander.com.\u00a0 -Marsha\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Cornelius lost his head\u2026just went completely off.\u00a0 One moment he was calm, cool and collected, the next \u2013 frantic and frustrated.\u00a0 He had no idea where he left the darned thing.\u00a0 It was gone without a clue.\u00a0 Sometimes he left it somewhere he wanted to remember to return to later (which was smart, right?) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Without a Clue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[150,109,106,124],"tags":[250,210,105,248,99,247,131,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}