{"id":1683,"date":"2015-01-08T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T08:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2015-01-13T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:23:32","slug":"our-orchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/01\/08\/our-orchard\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Orchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We chased each other between rows of plum trees. Leafy boughs drooped with blossoms casting shadows in our tracks.<\/p>\n<p>We kissed when we caught up. I sank into your embrace wishing you would never let go.<\/p>\n<p>But you did. A high school classmate was more clever than I. Grabbed your vulnerability. Clawed at your masculinity. You found her sexy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve returned. Standing across the street from a playground where our orchard used to be. The fruit trees were gone except for one.<\/p>\n<p>Boys played rough ball games. One on a bench looked like you.<\/p>\n<p>Love no longer filled that space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Her recent work has been published at: Nailpolish Stories, 50-Word Stories, 100 word story, Boston Literary Magazine, From the Depths (Haunted Waters Press), ShortbreadStories and espresso stories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We chased each other between rows of plum trees. Leafy boughs drooped with blossoms casting shadows in our tracks. We kissed when we caught up. I sank into your embrace wishing you would never let go. But you did. A high school classmate was more clever than I. Grabbed your vulnerability. Clawed at your masculinity. [&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":[3233,2696,3227,3226,1355,3228,3232,3234,41,91,2052,3224,2658,600,3229,1282,3231,3225,3230,1066,675,2634],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ball","tag-bench","tag-blossoms","tag-boughs","tag-boys","tag-embrace","tag-fruit","tag-games","tag-guest-contributor","tag-high-school","tag-kiss","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-leaves","tag-love","tag-masculinity","tag-orchard","tag-playground","tag-plum-trees","tag-sexy","tag-shadows","tag-trees","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}