{"id":2659,"date":"2017-02-06T21:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T04:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:11:40","slug":"the-cost-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/02\/06\/the-cost-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grace paced the kitchen while her six-year-old daughter, Sophia, watched curiously. Sophia had bright blue eyes like her father. When would the war end? Grace thought. It had been two months and she hadn\u2019t heard a word from Charles. All she could do to occupy her time was read and take care of Sophia.<\/p>\n<p>Several months later Grace\u2019s doorbell rang. She grabbed her robe and ran downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>It was a military gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you the wife of Charles McCormick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d she answered, eyes closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but your husband died in an explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace collapsed to her knees and wept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace paced the kitchen while her six-year-old daughter, Sophia, watched curiously. Sophia had bright blue eyes like her father. When would the war end? Grace thought. It had been two months and she hadn\u2019t heard a word from Charles. All she could do to occupy her time was read and take care of Sophia. Several [&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":[1073,1352,3665,1266,1350,41,1285,1097,4524,5521,5840,1109,88],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-crying","tag-daughter","tag-doorbell","tag-explosion","tag-father","tag-guest-contributor","tag-husband","tag-kitchen","tag-knees","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-robe","tag-time","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","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=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}