{"id":2231,"date":"2016-03-23T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2016-03-24T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T05:25:13","slug":"feeling-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/03\/23\/feeling-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blue is a breeze blowing wisps of hair across my cheek.  Red is juice running down my chin as I bite a sun-ripened strawberry.  Green, the scent of freshly cut grass, blades rippling and tickling the soles of my feet.  Purple is the fading warmth of a summer\u2019s evening.  White, a smooth window pane on an icy winter morning. <\/p>\n<p>I feel these things because I was born deaf, and my vision melted away soon after.  I sometimes imagine fleeting specks of color from my first glimpses of life, but those memories exist only in the moments between sleep and waking.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Megan Cassidy <\/p>\n<p>Megan is an author and English professor currently teaching at Schenectady County Community College. Her first young adult novel, <strong>Always, Jessie<\/strong> will be published by Saguaro Books this spring.  Megan&#8217;s other work has been featured in Pilcrow &#038; Dagger, Wordhaus, and Gilded Serpent Magazine.  For free excerpts and deleted scenes of Megan&#8217;s work, check out her <a href=\"http:\/\/yamauthor.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> or follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeganEileenC\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue is a breeze blowing wisps of hair across my cheek. Red is juice running down my chin as I bite a sun-ripened strawberry. Green, the scent of freshly cut grass, blades rippling and tickling the soles of my feet. Purple is the fading warmth of a summer\u2019s evening. White, a smooth window pane on [&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":[4659,2771,4519,794,1809,3036,529,268,41,4657,4656,2921,3311,2747,1044,4658,700,4127,1053,4660,731],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blades","tag-blue","tag-chin","tag-color","tag-deaf","tag-evening","tag-grass","tag-green","tag-guest-contributor","tag-juice","tag-megan-cassidy","tag-morning","tag-purple","tag-red","tag-sleep","tag-strawberry","tag-summer","tag-vision","tag-white","tag-window-pane","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}