{"id":1886,"date":"2015-06-25T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2015-06-26T03:44:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:44:39","slug":"waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/06\/25\/waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He phoned to tell me I hadn\u2019t returned his wave yesterday. Wondered why.<\/p>\n<p>I apologized, explained how busy I was. Being in a hurry, mind on other things. When absorbed with a book, I would walk with my head down. (Hadn\u2019t he noticed?) Feel its characters as they stride with me. My physical surroundings matter not.<\/p>\n<p>There were other days too, he said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t my intention to appear unfriendly. I promised I\u2019d lift my head more and make a point of looking out for my neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, I saw him running across the street.<\/p>\n<p>I waved.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her work has been published at: Nailpolish Stories, 50-Word Stories, 100 word story, 101 Words, Boston Literary Magazine, From the Depths (Haunted Waters Press), ShortbreadStories, and espresso stories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He phoned to tell me I hadn\u2019t returned his wave yesterday. Wondered why. I apologized, explained how busy I was. Being in a hurry, mind on other things. When absorbed with a book, I would walk with my head down. (Hadn\u2019t he noticed?) Feel its characters as they stride with me. My physical surroundings matter [&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":[1360,164,3343,3736,41,3735,3224,3426,3312,1971,3737,3027],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-apology","tag-book","tag-busy","tag-characters","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hurry","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-neighbor","tag-phone","tag-street","tag-unfriendly","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}