{"id":2234,"date":"2016-03-24T21:38:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T04:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2016-03-28T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:51:03","slug":"staking-a-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/03\/24\/staking-a-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Staking A Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It started with his touch and before that the way he looked at me; clear blue eyes that knew how to take me in, how to see through my quiet, my fear. We explored city streets that summer, always attached, love-linked. A goodnight kiss turned couch tumble\u2014hungry hands searching, lips and teeth crashing, his weight pinning me down. And then that surprise on the back of my neck: sweat, tears so sweet. Surrender, yes, maybe even love; but later, and better, trust and understanding, an intimacy that allowed regrets to be shared, my darkness to escape, a homestead staked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Holiday Goldfarb<\/p>\n<p>Holiday is currently enrolled in the MFA Program in Writing at Lindenwood University, Saint Louis, MO. If all goes as planned, she will graduate in December 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with his touch and before that the way he looked at me; clear blue eyes that knew how to take me in, how to see through my quiet, my fear. We explored city streets that summer, always attached, love-linked. A goodnight kiss turned couch tumble\u2014hungry hands searching, lips and teeth crashing, his weight [&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":[3648,1564,691,41,4661,4662,3335,2052,600,1018,3134,1323,4385],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blue-eyes","tag-city","tag-darkness","tag-guest-contributor","tag-holiday-goldfarb","tag-homestead","tag-intimacy","tag-kiss","tag-love","tag-surrender","tag-sweat","tag-tears","tag-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}