{"id":2139,"date":"2016-01-12T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T05:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2016-01-13T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T06:27:00","slug":"fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/01\/12\/fresh-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThat didn\u2019t work, nor this,\u201d Nancy said striking out rows on her list.<\/p>\n<p>A friend called. \u201cHow\u2019s the dieting going?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat dieting?\u201d Nancy answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve started,\u201d April said. \u201cNo carbs. Only healthy eating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nancy sighed. \u201cWhat\u2019s the point? You\u2019ll be packing on pounds at Valentine\u2019s, then Easter. Why start now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a new year, Nancy. I\u2019m overweight. So are you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather be happily plump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou still have time before the next new year if you start planning now. Chinese New Year starts on February 8th.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Chinese. Won\u2019t see me starving at a Dim Sum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither will I.\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>\u201cThat didn\u2019t work, nor this,\u201d Nancy said striking out rows on her list. A friend called. \u201cHow\u2019s the dieting going?\u201d \u201cWhat dieting?\u201d Nancy answered. \u201cI\u2019ve started,\u201d April said. \u201cNo carbs. Only healthy eating.\u201d Nancy sighed. \u201cWhat\u2019s the point? You\u2019ll be packing on pounds at Valentine\u2019s, then Easter. Why start now?\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a new year, Nancy. [&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":[4416,4419,4421,4415,4420,4418,4422,1544,3896,41,4417,3224,4093,4424,4423,3870,4414,3993],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-carbs","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-diet","tag-dim-sum","tag-easter","tag-february","tag-flash-fiction","tag-fresh","tag-guest-contributor","tag-healthy","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-list","tag-new-year","tag-overweight","tag-plump","tag-start","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}