{"id":1850,"date":"2015-05-30T06:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T22:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2015-06-02T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T00:54:46","slug":"little-plum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/05\/30\/little-plum\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Little Plum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The plum blossoms dance in the spring breeze like pink snowflakes across the yard.<\/p>\n<p><em>A boy again, mother lifts me into the limbs to pick ripened fruit. \u201cBe careful, my precious squirrel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cReady, dear?\u201d my wife asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d my voice chafes. I inspect my dark suit, adjusting my tie in the window\u2019s reflection. Wipe my face and rub wet fingers together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour speech is in my purse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Words. An inadequate parting gift.<\/p>\n<p><em>My mouth waters as mother sets down a steaming plum pie.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After her funeral, floodlights illuminate wreckage of the fallen tree. A brittle heart splinters. Sobs erupt anew.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/ericschweitz.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Schweitz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plum blossoms dance in the spring breeze like pink snowflakes across the yard. A boy again, mother lifts me into the limbs to pick ripened fruit. \u201cBe careful, my precious squirrel.\u201d \u201cReady, dear?\u201d my wife asks. \u201cYes,\u201d my voice chafes. I inspect my dark suit, adjusting my tie in the window\u2019s reflection. Wipe my [&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":[250,3620,1073,959,3619,3623,3232,550,3590,41,749,3622,73,2212,1327,3624,3618,3625,584,3359,271,1148,2768,189,188,258,153,1841,37,3621],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-boy","tag-breeze","tag-crying","tag-dance","tag-eric-schweitz","tag-eulogy","tag-fruit","tag-funeral","tag-gift","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-limbs","tag-mother","tag-mouth","tag-pie","tag-plum","tag-plum-blossoms","tag-plum-pie","tag-snowflakes","tag-sobs","tag-speech","tag-spring","tag-squirrel","tag-suit","tag-tie","tag-tree","tag-wife","tag-window","tag-words","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","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=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}