{"id":2725,"date":"2017-04-25T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2017-04-25T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:48:08","slug":"taking-the-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/04\/25\/taking-the-leap\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking The Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re doing this,\u201d Andrea says.<\/p>\n<p>I look over at my best friend, then down at the water below us. I swallow nervously before replying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be that bad. After all, Alex has done this at least twenty times.\u201d I wince at how shaky my voice sounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, well, Alex is Alex. Remember the time he stayed underwater for two minutes because Tim offered him a frappe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We laugh, breaking the tension.<\/p>\n<p>I take a deep breath. It\u2019s time. \u201cAlright, together. Breath, crouch, and jump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We clasp hands. I see the doubt and jump off the cliff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Neroli Ladner<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re doing this,\u201d Andrea says. I look over at my best friend, then down at the water below us. I swallow nervously before replying. \u201cIt can\u2019t be that bad. After all, Alex has done this at least twenty times.\u201d I wince at how shaky my voice sounds. \u201cYes, well, Alex is Alex. [&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":[2733,819,5606,6006,6003,41,6005,6004,6002,5012,4289,2362,177],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-best-friend","tag-cliff","tag-deep-breath","tag-doubt","tag-frappe","tag-guest-contributor","tag-jump","tag-leap","tag-neroli-ladner","tag-tension","tag-underwater","tag-voice","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","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=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}