{"id":2205,"date":"2016-03-02T22:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T05:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2016-03-03T23:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T06:32:18","slug":"shades-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/03\/02\/shades-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Shades Of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I sat quietly on the exam table pondering my yellow skin. Turning toward the mirror hanging on the wall, I ran my blue fingertips up my slender arm touching the pale face that reflected.  Too young for wrinkles I thought. I never liked doctors or hospitals. Maybe that\u2019s why I waited. But after a year of treating my superfluous symptoms, well &#8211; it never crossed my mind that it would be too late. That time was limited and colors carried the secret. The doctor wasn\u2019t comforting. My dark brown wide set eyes that glittered with life would soon turn dim. <\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Dana Sterner<\/p>\n<p>Dana is a registered nurse and has written for regional and national healthcare magazines and has been a prior contributor to a A Story in 100 Words.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat quietly on the exam table pondering my yellow skin. Turning toward the mirror hanging on the wall, I ran my blue fingertips up my slender arm touching the pale face that reflected. Too young for wrinkles I thought. I never liked doctors or hospitals. Maybe that\u2019s why I waited. But after a year [&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":[2135,1421,4060,429,4591,2720,2838,4592,41,4594,2191,1347,4593,519,2014,4595,138,2094],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arm","tag-colors","tag-dana-sterner","tag-doctors","tag-exam-table","tag-eyes","tag-face","tag-fingertips","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hospitals","tag-life","tag-mirror","tag-pale","tag-secret","tag-skin","tag-symptoms","tag-wall","tag-wrinkles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}