{"id":2583,"date":"2016-12-06T23:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2016-12-13T23:51:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T06:51:50","slug":"cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/12\/06\/cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gary\u2019s gasping two-hand tap against the wall earned second place in the breaststroke. Pete had less time to breathe. <\/p>\n<p>First in the butterfly &#8211; their final high school triumph shared.<\/p>\n<p>Later, they met in the shower. Whispers were overpowered by streaming water.<\/p>\n<p>Gary\u2019s kiss goodbye burned as a beloved&#8217;s should.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re sure? My heart&#8230;so damn broken.\u201d A lump choked his every word. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe, too.\u201d Gary held him. \u201cBut we\u2019ll be one thousand miles apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Pete laid in the tall grass behind the aquatic center. Silver-voiced male cicadas polished their mating song in desperation, chanting for a miracle. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Embe Charpentier<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary\u2019s gasping two-hand tap against the wall earned second place in the breaststroke. Pete had less time to breathe. First in the butterfly &#8211; their final high school triumph shared. Later, they met in the shower. Whispers were overpowered by streaming water. Gary\u2019s kiss goodbye burned as a beloved&#8217;s should. \u201cYou\u2019re sure? My heart&#8230;so damn [&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":[5641,5638,3546,5637,5636,4073,4275,2230,529,41,749,91,2052,600,5640,1104,2691,5639,138,177,1210,5165],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aquatic-center","tag-breaststroke","tag-breathe","tag-butterfly","tag-cicadas","tag-desperation","tag-embe-charpentier","tag-goodbye","tag-grass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-high-school","tag-kiss","tag-love","tag-lump","tag-miracle","tag-swimming","tag-triumph","tag-wall","tag-water","tag-whispers","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","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=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}