{"id":2047,"date":"2016-10-26T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T23:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2016-10-26T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T23:02:14","slug":"a-very-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"A Very Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>&#8220;The Day Gordon MacRae Died&#8221;\n<p>Oh, what a <em>beautiful <\/em>morning. I&#8217;ve spilled coffee all down the front of my white shirt. It?s an enormous stain the shape of Oklahoma?tipped on its ass, panhandle up. And it?s time to step up to that microphone, expose my soiled garment, respond wittily to three unwitting panelists. 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