{"id":2421,"date":"2016-07-29T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:53:09","slug":"a-day-a-span","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/07\/29\/a-day-a-span\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day, A Span"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At dawn I am brought forth into this world, howling, crying. Mama, a girl hardly thirteen, swaddling my small frail body in a torn shawl. Oblivious that I am a load, or so I think.<\/p>\n<p>At noon I walk briskly through dusty thorny paths nobody else walks through. A long march that brings only thirst. Fighting a war with no combatants. I am an assassin. I aim, I miss. I aim again, I hit.<\/p>\n<p>By dusk I am an old man walking out of this world, soon. Mama, so long a spirit by now. Papa, a boy hardly an adult.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TroyOnyango\" target=\"_blank\">Troy Onyango <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dawn I am brought forth into this world, howling, crying. Mama, a girl hardly thirteen, swaddling my small frail body in a torn shawl. Oblivious that I am a load, or so I think. At noon I walk briskly through dusty thorny paths nobody else walks through. A long march that brings only thirst. [&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":[5187,2013,2106,1107,41,5182,3944,5185,5183,1699,4451,5184,5181,5186,5180,88,3880],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-adult","tag-assassin","tag-dawn","tag-girl","tag-guest-contributor","tag-load","tag-mama","tag-march","tag-noon","tag-old-man","tag-papa","tag-paths","tag-shawl","tag-thirst","tag-troy-onyango","tag-war","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","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=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}