{"id":2502,"date":"2016-09-28T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2016-09-28T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T23:18:19","slug":"preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/09\/28\/preserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It floated in a four-foot cube glass case with runes etched into the gold frame and tiger\u2019s eye gems set into all eight corners.<\/p>\n<p>Connor found his gaze drawn to their chatoyant lustre and wondered if the sphere was only an optical illusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt must be,\u201d he verbalized. \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing\u00ad\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, ah&#8230;unnatural,\u201d the mage corrected. \u201cYou were never going to get this from nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image of Claudia moved inside the time-bubble. Connor watched his daughter smile: a welcome change from the burial mask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll take it,\u201d he said, smearing tears with the back of his hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Perry McDaid<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It floated in a four-foot cube glass case with runes etched into the gold frame and tiger\u2019s eye gems set into all eight corners. Connor found his gaze drawn to their chatoyant lustre and wondered if the sphere was only an optical illusion. \u201cIt must be,\u201d he verbalized. \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing\u00ad\u2013\u201d \u201cAh, ah&#8230;unnatural,\u201d the [&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":[5406,5400,5397,1352,1544,4585,5399,2133,940,41,5401,5404,1543,3744,5403,3041,5395,5396,5402,1323,5398,5405],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-burial-mask","tag-corners","tag-cube","tag-daughter","tag-flash-fiction","tag-frame","tag-gems","tag-glass","tag-gold","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lustre","tag-mage","tag-microfiction","tag-nature","tag-optical-illusion","tag-perry-mcdaid","tag-preserved","tag-runes","tag-sphere","tag-tears","tag-tigers-eye","tag-time-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}