{"id":1771,"date":"2015-03-02T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:02:38","slug":"the-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/03\/02\/the-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Even to this day I curse, swear and kick myself for having dozed off that painful night. Though I kept vigil all through her illness, the feeling of guilt has never subsided.<\/p>\n<p>She was my strength.<\/p>\n<p>I knew the meaning of the cloudy eyes and immobility. After three consecutive nights, the strain on my eyes was too much and I slipped. It was at such a weak moment she chose to give up her fight&#8230;that hurt me.<\/p>\n<p>My being awake at her last moments would mean nothing, but I feel guilty for expecting the death of my loving pet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Thriveni C. Mysore.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even to this day I curse, swear and kick myself for having dozed off that painful night. Though I kept vigil all through her illness, the feeling of guilt has never subsided. She was my strength. I knew the meaning of the cloudy eyes and immobility. After three consecutive nights, the strain on my eyes [&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":[3403,3401,2274,2720,41,1966,997,1925,3400,600,2665,2460,3399,3397,3206,3398,3402],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-awake","tag-cloudy","tag-curse","tag-eyes","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-illness","tag-immobility","tag-love","tag-night","tag-pet","tag-strength","tag-swear","tag-thriveni-c-mysore","tag-vigil","tag-weak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","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=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}