{"id":3057,"date":"2018-03-01T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2018-03-01T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:22:44","slug":"china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/03\/01\/china\/","title":{"rendered":"China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A friend asked, \u201cAlyssa, do you think you\u2019ll travel next year?\u201d From deep within, without previous forethought, I knew. \u201cYes, I\u2019m going to China!\u201d I positively proclaimed. A week later I confided in a mentor at a local fair about my revelation but that I felt some doubt. We entered an exhibit room. Two handmade Chinese dresses stood at the entrance. Intrigued, I inspected them. The seamstresses had sewn their names on the insides of the collars. The first said \u201cAlyssa\u201d and the second said \u201cFaith\u201d. I heard a voice say, \u201cAlyssa have faith.\u201d Months later I traveled to China. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Alyssa Welch-Minaker <\/p>\n<p>Alyssa is an online MFA writing student at Lindenwood University. She lives in North Africa where she reads excessively and plays with words. Visit her blog at alyssaminaker.wordpress.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked, \u201cAlyssa, do you think you\u2019ll travel next year?\u201d From deep within, without previous forethought, I knew. \u201cYes, I\u2019m going to China!\u201d I positively proclaimed. A week later I confided in a mentor at a local fair about my revelation but that I felt some doubt. We entered an exhibit room. Two handmade [&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":[6817,861,6824,6006,6821,6822,6820,4506,107,6818,41,3394,6819,6823,4356,2362],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alyssa-welch-minaker","tag-china","tag-collars","tag-doubt","tag-dresses","tag-entrance","tag-exhibit-room","tag-fair","tag-faith","tag-forethought","tag-guest-contributor","tag-mentor","tag-revelation","tag-seamstresses","tag-travel","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}