{"id":2284,"date":"2016-04-28T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2016-05-18T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T19:28:03","slug":"becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/04\/28\/becoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mrs. Hoover knelt in front of me, a gesture reserved for the quietest of her preschool students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d she repeated.<\/p>\n<p>I knew what I would become, but it had nothing to do with wanting or wishing. My fate felt solid, and it vied for my attention.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to ignore the itch.<\/p>\n<p>Even at a young age I knew that it would be dangerous to provide details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what I want to be, only what I am becoming,\u201d I recited, the scales on my ankle yearning to be scratched.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Sarah Vernetti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Hoover knelt in front of me, a gesture reserved for the quietest of her preschool students. \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d she repeated. I knew what I would become, but it had nothing to do with wanting or wishing. My fate felt solid, and it vied for my attention. [&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":[4791,4044,673,41,4790,1441,2809,2453,4789],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ankle","tag-dangerous","tag-fate","tag-guest-contributor","tag-itch","tag-preschool","tag-sarah-vernetti","tag-scales","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","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=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}