{"id":1854,"date":"2015-06-02T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T00:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2015-06-02T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T00:59:04","slug":"basic-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/06\/02\/basic-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All I could say to my mother as she stood haggard over the sunken sink and washed the dishes; rattled the stainless steel pots trying to make some type of noise to fill up space that the silence had long held ransom was, \u201cI don\u2019t mean to be sad.\u201d I gripped at the air as I said the words; tried to catch eloquence and understanding in my palms. I wanted to give her a better answer, a better reason. I wanted to appease. \u201cI don\u2019t mean to be sad,\u201d again. Basic. All I could be\u2026everything I could say. \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Endya Goliday<\/p>\n<p>Endya is a fiction writer and playwright who resides in Saint Louis, Missouri. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I could say to my mother as she stood haggard over the sunken sink and washed the dishes; rattled the stainless steel pots trying to make some type of noise to fill up space that the silence had long held ransom was, \u201cI don\u2019t mean to be sad.\u201d I gripped at the air as [&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":[3626,3627,3633,3634,41,73,2233,3632,3629,3630,3631,1838,2100,3362,3628,37],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-behavior","tag-dishes","tag-eloquence","tag-endya-goliday","tag-guest-contributor","tag-mother","tag-noise","tag-palms","tag-pots","tag-ransom","tag-sad","tag-silence","tag-sink","tag-sorry","tag-stainless-steel","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","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=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}