{"id":572,"date":"2016-07-26T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=572"},"modified":"2016-07-26T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T13:16:14","slug":"without-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=572","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\" alt=\"Without a Clue-43\" width=\"584\" height=\"399\" 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\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cornelius lost his head&#8230;just went completely off.\u00a0 One moment he was calm, cool and collected, the next &#8211; 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&#8217;t 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&#8230; but it wasn&#8217;t broken.\u00a0 That&#8217;s just the way he was.\u00a0 Besides, what would all the others say if HIS was permanent&#8230;but what does everybody else do when they lose theirs? \u00a0Oh phoooey!!\u00a0 Permanent heads&#8230;..that&#8217;s just crazy, it just isn&#8217;t done!<\/p>\n<p><em>***While we stay\u00a0strictly and completely\u00a0away from politics on this\u00a0blog, I can&#8217;t help but notice how much\u00a0John&#8217;s image resembles the American electorate in each election cycle (although for this one &#8211; 2016 &#8211; I should have an image of a moron chugging draino).\u00a0 It 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 -Marsha\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Cornelius lost his head&#8230;just went completely off.\u00a0 One moment he was calm, cool and collected, the next &#8211; 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=572\" 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],"tags":[206,207,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}