{"id":2889,"date":"2017-10-13T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2017-10-18T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T01:10:41","slug":"rose-petal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/10\/13\/rose-petal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Petal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It took Jim more than a half hour to arrive at his wife Kate\u2019s grave. The flowers he brought were withered from the heat and drops of sweat dripped down the nape of his neck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi, Sweetie. I\u2019m sorry it took me so long to get here. Traffic was unbearable. I brought you your favorite, yellow roses, but they are ruined from the heat. I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t seem to get anything right these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim placed the roses against the gravestone, knelt, and quietly prayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be back tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Jim left, a rose petal dropped to the ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took Jim more than a half hour to arrive at his wife Kate\u2019s grave. The flowers he brought were withered from the heat and drops of sweat dripped down the nape of his neck. \u201cHi, Sweetie. I\u2019m sorry it took me so long to get here. Traffic was unbearable. I brought you your favorite, [&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":[6435,2963,179,5523,3555,41,1268,5521,6436,2420,5021,6434,1378,3134,2513,153],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-drops-of-sweat","tag-flowers","tag-grave","tag-gravestone","tag-ground","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heat","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-nape","tag-neck","tag-prayer","tag-rose-petal","tag-roses","tag-sweat","tag-traffic","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","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=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}