{"id":2397,"date":"2016-07-13T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:39:57","slug":"wanderlust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/07\/13\/wanderlust\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanderlust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At age eleven I begged to travel to Venice, to see those water streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy desert baby has wanderlust,\u201d Mama laughed.<\/p>\n<p>On weekends, if we had money for gas, she\u2019d tell me, \u201cPick a direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We stopped at roadside attractions to buy those tiny spoons. We ate questionable tamales. We took pictures with four different Paul Bunyan statues.<\/p>\n<p>For my sixteenth birthday, we followed highway signs promising The Thing. Surprise! It was a fake mummy. Stomach dropping, I realized people like us never saw the Grand Canal.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re lucky,\u201d Mama whispered. \u201cItalians don\u2019t even dream about seeing something like this.\u201d  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clippings.me\/llmad\" target=\"_blank\">L.L. Madrid<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At age eleven I begged to travel to Venice, to see those water streets. \u201cMy desert baby has wanderlust,\u201d Mama laughed. On weekends, if we had money for gas, she\u2019d tell me, \u201cPick a direction.\u201d We stopped at roadside attractions to buy those tiny spoons. We ate questionable tamales. We took pictures with four different [&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":[758,3467,145,5102,1065,5101,5111,41,5112,5098,590,5110,5107,5106,5104,5103,5108,3706,5100,3935,5105,5109,5099,5097,177,2873],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-baby","tag-birthday","tag-desert","tag-direction","tag-dream","tag-gas","tag-grand-canal","tag-guest-contributor","tag-italians","tag-l-l-madrid","tag-money","tag-mummy","tag-paul-bunyan","tag-pictures","tag-roadside-attractions","tag-spoons","tag-statues","tag-stomach","tag-streets","tag-surprise","tag-tamales","tag-the-thing","tag-venice","tag-wanderlust","tag-water","tag-weekends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","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=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}