{"id":2095,"date":"2015-12-01T22:05:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T05:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2015-12-02T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T04:56:30","slug":"santa-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/12\/01\/santa-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m ten, too old to sit on Santa\u2019s lap. Tell my parents. Please, someone?<\/p>\n<p>Last year I was a brat, on purpose. Cracked inappropriate jokes, tugged his beard, farted on his pants. Hoping my message would come across.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, here we go again. When asked what I want for Christmas, I belted out my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Santa was speechless. Mom and Dad stared. Parents with kids waiting to meet Santa looked like icicles.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I remembered Scrooge. \u201cSorry Santa,\u201d I said, not letting him see my tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re forgiven, son,\u201d he replied. \u201cThe greatest gift is love. You already have that.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom 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, SixWordMemoirs, and Espresso Stories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m ten, too old to sit on Santa\u2019s lap. Tell my parents. Please, someone? Last year I was a brat, on purpose. Cracked inappropriate jokes, tugged his beard, farted on his pants. Hoping my message would come across. Yet, here we go again. When asked what I want for Christmas, I belted out my thoughts. [&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":[4305,4304,2870,42,1024,4306,3590,4307,2068,2835,600,3910,1023,2156,649,44,4308,1323],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beard","tag-brat","tag-child","tag-christmas","tag-dad","tag-fart","tag-gift","tag-icicles","tag-jokes","tag-lap","tag-love","tag-message","tag-mom","tag-pants","tag-parents","tag-santa","tag-scrooge","tag-tears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","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=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}