{"id":1194,"date":"2019-01-28T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T14:02:59","slug":"persistently-inedible-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Persistently Inedible"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Persistently Inedible\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>(resisting the inevitable)<\/p>\n

They came for me in the dead of night, grabbed me and forced a sack over my head.\u00a0 I was taken to an undisclosed location, locked in a room with nothing but a table and chair.\u00a0 A plate of food was set in front of me.\u00a0 Weird. \u00a0They told me I could leave… but only if I finished everything on my plate.\u00a0 I was not hungry.<\/p>\n

I tried to reason with them. \u00a0I ranted and raged and pounded my fists in a heroic hissy fit., I even begged…but they ignored me and by then, hours later, I was getting hungry.<\/p>\n

The plate of food was still sitting there but I didn’t recognize anything on it.\u00a0 It must have been some kind of exotic vegetables.\u00a0 It didn’t smell good.\u00a0 I resisted.<\/p>\n

A few hours later I was famished.\u00a0 I took a closer look. \u00a0maybe it wouldn’t be so bad, but just then, something twitched.\u00a0 I squeemed with the heebie-jeebies…and looking again, I could swear it was breathing.\u00a0 I thought I’d puke but had nothing to give…that’s when it all started to stir and writhe and become agitated.\u00a0 It was REALLY weird (but I was sooooooo hungry now).<\/p>\n

I grabbed a piece off the plate, wrestled it into my mouth and down my throat.\u00a0 It resisted, kicking and screaming all the way down.\u00a0 That’s when I puked…but as it limped away angrily, I caught it again and RE-ate it.\u00a0 In fact, I managed to round up every single piece of those awful, jabbering bits of freakish vegetable…and I must say, it was the best meal I’d had in ages.\u00a0 In fact, I was\u00a0 looking and feeling much more like my old self again.\u00a0 Man!\u00a0 Best Thanksgiving EVER!!!\u00a0 end<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

***Another image and story slated to be published in our 4th book, “A Short Burst”…a collection of flash science fiction, illustrated.\u00a0 Find our first 3 illustrated books at www.sallemander.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Persistently Inedible\u00a0\u00a0(resisting the inevitable) They came for me in the dead of night, grabbed me and forced a sack over my head.\u00a0 I was taken to an undisclosed location, locked in a room with nothing but a table and chair.\u00a0 A plate of food was set in front of me.\u00a0 Weird. \u00a0They told me I … Continue reading Persistently Inedible<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,150,124],"tags":[250,210,105,248,38,176,99,19,96,102,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"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=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}