{"id":1452,"date":"2014-02-18T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2014-02-18T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T10:15:10","slug":"final-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2014\/02\/18\/final-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My toes wrap precipitous edges.   Points of shale and limestone gouge my feet, painting blood trails.  Struggling to stand, I traverse the narrow path.  Black canyons rise below&#8211; inviting me to swim in their depths.  Immense.  Cold.  My hands flutter through gray smoke, displacing sacred dancers who vanish in gasping silence.<br \/>\nOur last meal rustled as we pulled cardboard food from tattooed paper bags.  You scrawled the plan across my brown napkin, freezing me.<\/p>\n<p>I thrust myself into blankness, crystal ice. I discard hope, the weak\u2019s weight.  Growing lighter, I embrace your last etching, scratched upon my fading horizon.  Goodbye.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Karen Burton recently received her MFA from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.  She currently serves as the managing editor of The Lindenwood Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My toes wrap precipitous edges. Points of shale and limestone gouge my feet, painting blood trails. Struggling to stand, I traverse the narrow path. Black canyons rise below&#8211; inviting me to swim in their depths. Immense. Cold. My hands flutter through gray smoke, displacing sacred dancers who vanish in gasping silence. Our last meal rustled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[281,2690,2692,1030,2087,41,2195,2689,2693,1973,2688,2691,2304],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blood","tag-canyons","tag-cold","tag-fast-food","tag-feet","tag-guest-contributor","tag-karen-burton","tag-limestone","tag-napkin","tag-path","tag-shale","tag-swimming","tag-toes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}