{"id":2572,"date":"2016-11-22T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2016-11-30T23:18:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T06:18:31","slug":"i-stole-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/11\/22\/i-stole-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"I Stole A Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I\u2019m sorry. I stole a blue-eyed toe-headed overalled emptiness because I
\nJust couldn\u2019t help myself. She was climbing a fence, she was smelling a tree. She was a whip snapping wet wings. She was a sky that could hold anything.<\/p>\n

I fed her square meals of television, eggs, and ambition, served rare. She ate the garnish, grew smaller and smaller until she was gifted and talented\u2014pretty new scales, shiny black shoes worth the pinch. Now it\u2019s not clear whether, if I keep tightening the belt, she will ever be able to disappear.<\/p>\n

In my defense, I love her.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Brook Bhagat <\/p>\n

Brook holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University. She teaches college writing and is the co-owner and chief editor of BluePlanetJournal.com. Her nonfiction, poetry, and flash fiction have appeared in Creations Magazine, Little India, Outpost, Nowhere Poetry, and The Syzygy Poetry Journal. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And I\u2019m sorry. I stole a blue-eyed toe-headed overalled emptiness because I Just couldn\u2019t help myself. She was climbing a fence, she was smelling a tree. She was a whip snapping wet wings. She was a sky that could hold anything. I fed her square meals of television, eggs, and ambition, served rare. She ate […]<\/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":[5503,758,3268,4499,2534,1099,327,2895,5610,41,600,5609,242,5608,1751,258,2361],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ambition","tag-baby","tag-belt","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-defense","tag-eggs","tag-emptiness","tag-fence","tag-garnish","tag-guest-contributor","tag-love","tag-rare","tag-shoes","tag-stole","tag-television","tag-tree","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","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=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}