{"id":2627,"date":"2017-01-12T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2017-01-12T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T01:00:24","slug":"just-a-cigarette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/01\/12\/just-a-cigarette\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Cigarette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sometimes I wish I smoked just to have something else to do. While I watch you paint the bodies of other women with your electrifying and magical fingertips, it feels almost natural to have a cigarette between my fingers. Yet I do not set my lungs on fire. I suspect it has something to do with your disapproval. You say smoking is a sign of suicidal behavior. You will not go out with a mental patient. So I quietly sit and watch as you caress and trace the contours of other women, happy not to be in a coffin instead.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Suhasini Patni <\/p>\n<p>Suhasini is a second year undergraduate at Ashoka University, in India, studying English literature. She has previously published a book review in The Tishman Review and a micro-fiction piece with A Quiet Courage, and hopes to publish many more. She is new to the publishing world but loves to write.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wish I smoked just to have something else to do. While I watch you paint the bodies of other women with your electrifying and magical fingertips, it feels almost natural to have a cigarette between my fingers. Yet I do not set my lungs on fire. I suspect it has something to do [&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":[1820,2306,5753,2749,4592,41,2217,5755,2861,5716,5754,141],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cigarette","tag-coffin","tag-disapproval","tag-fingers","tag-fingertips","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lungs","tag-mental-patient","tag-paint","tag-suhasini-patni","tag-suicidal-behavior","tag-wish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","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=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}