{"id":2389,"date":"2016-07-09T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2016-07-12T19:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:06:03","slug":"contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/07\/09\/contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A painting pulled me from across the room. Past spectators scrutinizing other exhibits. Past a man commenting on contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to meet the artist and ask what had inspired him.<\/p>\n<p>Hut alone in a field. The dark evening sky contrasted with flaxen wheat. No people or animals.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDo you like it,\u201d a man asked me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo depressing,\u201d I answered. \u201cLooks familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the toolshed on my parents\u2019 farm. As a boy, I took shelter there during a sudden storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you\u2019re the artist,\u201d I exclaimed eyeing him.<\/p>\n<p>I left the gallery realizing we were once classmates at school.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her work has been published at: Nailpolish Stories, 50-Word Stories, 100 word story, 101 Words, Boston Literary Magazine, From the Depths (Haunted Waters Press), ShortbreadStories, SixWordMemoirs, and Espresso Stories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A painting pulled me from across the room. Past spectators scrutinizing other exhibits. Past a man commenting on contemporary art. I wanted to meet the artist and ask what had inspired him. Hut alone in a field. The dark evening sky contrasted with flaxen wheat. No people or animals. \u201cDo you like it,\u201d a man [&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":[1709,736,1338,2867,5068,3036,5069,1676,5073,41,3068,3224,2724,1244,131,5072,1736,3787,3381,5071,5070],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-classmates","tag-contemporary","tag-evening","tag-exhibits","tag-field","tag-gallery","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hut","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-painting","tag-people","tag-school","tag-shelter","tag-sky","tag-spectators","tag-storm","tag-toolshed","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}