{"id":2874,"date":"2017-09-27T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2017-09-27T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:15:22","slug":"natural-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/09\/27\/natural-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Todd places a bouquet of red roses on his wife\u2019s grave. The rain pelts down and the flowers wither. He sighs and kneels on the muddy ground, tears filling his eyes. Drenched from head to toe, he doesn\u2019t care. It\u2019s been two months since Maria died from cancer and his chest aches. He has no family, only his job to keep him company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss you, Maria. I wish it had been me instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weeping, Todd somberly rises to his feet and walks to his car.<\/p>\n<p>After several minutes, the rain stops and the roses return to their natural beauty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd places a bouquet of red roses on his wife\u2019s grave. The rain pelts down and the flowers wither. He sighs and kneels on the muddy ground, tears filling his eyes. Drenched from head to toe, he doesn\u2019t care. It\u2019s been two months since Maria died from cancer and his chest aches. He has no [&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":[2592,6402,1191,1814,341,2720,614,4155,179,3555,41,6403,589,5521,1414,1378,3438,1323],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beauty","tag-bouquet","tag-cancer","tag-car","tag-company","tag-eyes","tag-family","tag-flower","tag-grave","tag-ground","tag-guest-contributor","tag-head-to-toe","tag-job","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-rain","tag-roses","tag-sigh","tag-tears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","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=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}