{"id":2736,"date":"2017-05-10T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2017-05-16T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T21:12:39","slug":"youth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/05\/10\/youth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We pelt through the underbrush, giddy and squealing, following a trail too small for adult passage. Fronds of yellow broom lash our way with petals; it is early spring and the mud has only freshly set beneath our footfalls. The wooden knuckles of roots provide easy grapple holds for our pudgy hands, and we push on undaunted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where are you?&#8221; he calls, breathless from behind me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here! I&#8217;m up, follow my voice!&#8221; I guide him and we emerge, hand in hand, into the clearing.<\/p>\n<p>Noble and patient, our grandfather&#8217;s oak tree welcomes us. A bird&#8217;s nest awaits as our reward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/violettabuono.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Violetta Buono<\/a><\/p>\n<p>London-based introvert Violetta Buono (@ViolettaBuono on Twitter) lives in a fantasy land of her own making. She graduated in Classical Studies, and is currently a freelance writer. Between writing poetry, flash fiction, and pretending to work on a novel, she sometimes submits her work but has yet to be published. This is her first piece appearing to the public.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We pelt through the underbrush, giddy and squealing, following a trail too small for adult passage. Fronds of yellow broom lash our way with petals; it is early spring and the mud has only freshly set beneath our footfalls. The wooden knuckles of roots provide easy grapple holds for our pudgy hands, and we push [&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":[6030,6026,6028,6025,1476,41,2927,6029,2564,1204,97,6023,6027,3174,1148,6024,6022,6031,266],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birds-nest","tag-broom","tag-footfalls","tag-fronds","tag-grandfather","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hands","tag-holds","tag-knuckles","tag-mud","tag-oak-tree","tag-passage","tag-petals","tag-reward","tag-spring","tag-trail","tag-underbrush","tag-violetta-buono","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","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=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}