{"id":1907,"date":"2015-07-09T07:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2015-07-10T06:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T22:43:03","slug":"family-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/07\/09\/family-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Under Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spectators looked on with intense intrigue as the judge examined articles placed before her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMister Coroner,\u201d she began. \u201cDid you succeed in contacting the victim\u2019s next of kin?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The questioned man glanced nervously about him. \u201cNo, Your Honor. Records show her parents are deceased. A younger sister ran away from home six years ago. Hasn\u2019t been seen since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you tried her extended family?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not aware of any members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat fidgeting in the back of the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcuse me,\u201d I said rising. \u201cI knew the young victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you?\u201d the startled judge asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was her sister.\u201d<\/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>Spectators looked on with intense intrigue as the judge examined articles placed before her. \u201cMister Coroner,\u201d she began. \u201cDid you succeed in contacting the victim\u2019s next of kin?\u201d The questioned man glanced nervously about him. \u201cNo, Your Honor. Records show her parents are deceased. A younger sister ran away from home six years ago. Hasn\u2019t [&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":[3789,3217,110,3791,614,41,3788,1749,3224,3790,649,3488,548,3787,1660],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-articles","tag-coroner","tag-courtroom","tag-deceased","tag-family","tag-guest-contributor","tag-intrigue","tag-judge","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-next-of-kin","tag-parents","tag-question","tag-sister","tag-spectators","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","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=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}