{"id":3209,"date":"2018-08-11T09:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2018-08-11T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:12:39","slug":"ripen-and-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/08\/11\/ripen-and-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripen And Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We both said we meant it, your hands in my hair. In the end it didn\u2019t matter, you looked out across the desert like you were already crossing it, a dehydrated camel hell bent on pushing yourself towards purple sunsets no matter how rough or dangerous the terrain. I sat in the barely shade near a towering saguaro and braided spines and blossoms intermittently, blood flowering on the waxy white petals. I watched you go until the heat rising from the sand turned you into a wavy haze. I sighed when both hands dropped the struggle to hold you near.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Sarah Reddick <\/p>\n<p>Sarah is a writer, editor, and a writing professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her work has previously appeared in The Local Voice, The Mid-Rivers Review, and Salt Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We both said we meant it, your hands in my hair. In the end it didn\u2019t matter, you looked out across the desert like you were already crossing it, a dehydrated camel hell bent on pushing yourself towards purple sunsets no matter how rough or dangerous the terrain. I sat in the barely shade near [&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":[281,3227,203,145,41,1291,2927,5206,1268,6027,7182,2933,4572,6865,7183,3698,7180,7181,7179],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blood","tag-blossoms","tag-camel","tag-desert","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-hands","tag-haze","tag-heat","tag-petals","tag-saguaro","tag-sand","tag-sarah-reddick","tag-shade","tag-spines","tag-struggle","tag-sunsets","tag-terrain","tag-the-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","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=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}