{"id":2862,"date":"2017-09-15T17:28:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T00:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2017-09-19T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:55:17","slug":"almas-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/09\/15\/almas-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Alma’s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d always known about my husband’s cheating, but when he was home, he was good company. Now he’d left.<\/p>\n

Was I losing my mind, too?<\/p>\n

“Leave Miami,” my daughter had said. She\u2019d just given birth to my only grandchild. “You can start over with us in Orlando.”<\/p>\n

What was she was thinking? She knows I’ve never been more than thirty miles from home.<\/p>\n

I looked down. The purse I thought I’d lost was between my shoes. <\/p>\n

Picking up my purse, I couldn\u2019t wait for the train doors to open fully\u2014my daughter cradling my granddaughter on the brightly lit platform.<\/strong>
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\nFrom Guest Contributor Geoffrey Philp <\/p>\n

Geoffrey is the author of the YA novel, Garvey\u2019s Ghost. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the Inter-American Campus of Miami Dade College.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d always known about my husband’s cheating, but when he was home, he was good company. Now he’d left. Was I losing my mind, too? “Leave Miami,” my daughter had said. She\u2019d just given birth to my only grandchild. “You can start over with us in Orlando.” What was she was thinking? She knows I’ve […]<\/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":[1052,2366,341,1352,6371,6367,2484,41,134,1285,2236,4088,2922,6368,6370,6369,242,2334],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birth","tag-cheating","tag-company","tag-daughter","tag-geoffrey-philp","tag-grandchild","tag-granddaughter","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-husband","tag-journey","tag-miami","tag-mind","tag-orlando","tag-platform","tag-purse","tag-shoes","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","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=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}