{"id":2190,"date":"2016-02-19T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T03:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2016-02-23T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:02:36","slug":"milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/02\/19\/milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the beginning, I cried for it. Yet each night after dark, I threw up that sour formula, that fake milk warmed in glass bottles my mother tested on her wrists, so I wouldn&#8217;t burn my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Still, my mouth burned. I was a difficult baby, thin and colicky. I hungered but could not accept nourishment.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I began: Born at just five pounds, brought home in a receiving blanket, placed in a crib where I protested and screamed, the vein in my neck throbbing.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, I&#8217;m still protesting, still screaming.<\/p>\n<p>It scares me to close my mouth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Cinthia Ritchie <\/p>\n<p>Cinthia is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee who writes and runs mountains in Anchorage, Alaska. Find her work at Water-Stone Review, Evening Street Press, Third Wednesday, Best American Sports Writing 2013, Sports Literate, The Boiler Journal, Cactus Heart Press, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, damselfly press, Memoir, Sugar Mule, Foliate Oak Literary Journal and other small presses. Her first novel, Dolls Behaving Badly, released from Hachette Press\/Grand Central Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, I cried for it. Yet each night after dark, I threw up that sour formula, that fake milk warmed in glass bottles my mother tested on her wrists, so I wouldn&#8217;t burn my mouth. Still, my mouth burned. I was a difficult baby, thin and colicky. I hungered but could not accept [&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":[3195,4550,4546,4552,1073,1853,4548,4345,41,4522,73,2212,2665,4551,3317,4547,4549],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blanket","tag-burn","tag-cinthia-ritchie","tag-crib","tag-crying","tag-dark","tag-fake","tag-formula","tag-guest-contributor","tag-milk","tag-mother","tag-mouth","tag-night","tag-nourishment","tag-scream","tag-sour","tag-wrists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","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=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}