{"id":2638,"date":"2017-01-23T22:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2017-01-23T22:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:52:42","slug":"house-of-a-hoarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/01\/23\/house-of-a-hoarder\/","title":{"rendered":"House Of A Hoarder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The stench of stale tobacco hangs in the air. You treat your house like an air-tight Tupperware; you think your hoarded items could be destroyed by fresh air, so you never let me in. You ignore the smoke that settles on those decaying maps of ancient civilizations.<\/p>\n<p>I walk into this careful messiness. The smoke accumulates on the loose silk threads of my dress. You study my face as if it were one of your maps: tracing the lines of ancient feelings in the wrinkles of my skin. I replace the roughness of your scrutiny by leaving. Can&#8217;t hoard me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From 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>The stench of stale tobacco hangs in the air. You treat your house like an air-tight Tupperware; you think your hoarded items could be destroyed by fresh air, so you never let me in. You ignore the smoke that settles on those decaying maps of ancient civilizations. I walk into this careful messiness. The smoke [&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":[4652,5780,3947,2838,5776,41,5773,2103,5775,5779,5778,5781,1638,2234,3560,5716,5777,3026,5774],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-ancient-civilizations","tag-dress","tag-face","tag-fresh-air","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hoarder","tag-house","tag-items","tag-maps","tag-messiness","tag-scrutiny","tag-silk","tag-smoke","tag-stench","tag-suhasini-patni","tag-threads","tag-tobacco","tag-tupperware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","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=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}