{"id":3102,"date":"2018-04-24T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2018-04-24T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:18:26","slug":"in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/04\/24\/in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cSit down!\u201d someone yelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to find out what happened,\u201d I yelled back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told to wait,\u201d a woman insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The stage went dark. My mind revisited twirling silks, accelerating swings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPity she fell. A beautiful performer,\u201d the man next to me said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted to be a aerial trapeze artist since turning twelve,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifficult to replace,\u201d he added. \u201cShe was so talented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy in the past?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause,\u201d he said while checking the Internet, \u201cIt appears she may have&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my only child,\u201d I sobbed, rising to walk away from my seat.<\/p>\n<p>No one stopped me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSit down!\u201d someone yelled. \u201cI need to find out what happened,\u201d I yelled back. \u201cWe were told to wait,\u201d a woman insisted. The stage went dark. My mind revisited twirling silks, accelerating swings. \u201cPity she fell. A beautiful performer,\u201d the man next to me said. \u201cShe wanted to be a aerial trapeze artist since turning [&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":[2870,1853,41,3224,215,2922,6949,4614,2182,6947,4445,6948,6952,6951,6950,2382],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-child","tag-dark","tag-guest-contributor","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-man","tag-mind","tag-performer","tag-pity","tag-seat","tag-silks","tag-stage","tag-swings","tag-the-internet","tag-the-past","tag-trapeze-artist","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","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=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}