{"id":300,"date":"2014-06-16T07:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T12:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-06-18T08:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:00:46","slug":"geriatric-jitterbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/geriatric-jitterbug\/","title":{"rendered":"Geriatric Jitterbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lost a bet.<a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Horse-racing-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-302\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Horse-racing-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Horse-racing-4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not just any bet. <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/the-bet-part-iv-fresh-blood\/\">THE Bet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which meant that I had to write a short story from a title given to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlubar.com\/\">David Lubar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That title was &#8220;Geriatric Jitterbug.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GERIATRIC-JITTERBUG.pdf\">You can download the story here<\/a>. (Right click to Save As.) \u00c2\u00a0It is probably safe to say that it&#8217;s not for young eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I will update this post as my fellow betters (bettees?) upload their stories.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Here are links to the other short stories.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><a style=\"color: #dd3333;\" href=\"http:\/\/davidlubar.com\/Partners.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorandrewsmith.com\/Author_Andrew_Smith\/The_Bet.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Every Superhero Needs One<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/a>by Andrew (title by Kimberly)<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #dd3333;\" href=\"http:\/\/davidlubar.com\/Partners.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Dumbass Partners<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by David (title by Catherine)<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"color: #dd3333;\" title=\"Herman Munster is Still Alive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberlypauley.com\/herman-munster-is-still-alive\/\"><em>Herman Munster is Still Alive<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Kimberly (title by me)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that all the stories are up, I&#8217;ll be reading them tonight!<\/p>\n<p>Four free short stories for you. Woo hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost a bet. Not just any bet. THE Bet. Which meant that I had to write a short story from a title given to me by David Lubar. That title was &#8220;Geriatric Jitterbug.&#8221; You can download the story here. (Right click to Save As.) \u00c2\u00a0It is probably safe to say that it&#8217;s not for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}