{"id":3277,"date":"2018-10-15T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T03:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2018-10-16T21:36:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T04:36:03","slug":"the-eve-before-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/10\/15\/the-eve-before-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eve Before Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The eve before Halloween I visit Melissa\u2019s gravesite and place a<br \/>\nbouquet of yellow roses against her stone. She&#8217;d be thirty years old<br \/>\ntoday. The cemetery is empty, and the rain is cold against my face, but<br \/>\nI am here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi, Sweetie. In honor of your favorite holiday, I\u2019m having a Halloween<br \/>\nparty and celebrating your birthday tomorrow. I wish you could be here,\u201d<br \/>\nI say, tearing. I walk to my car briskly, the umbrella inside out from<br \/>\nthe wind.<\/p>\n<p>The rain becomes heavy and when I drive off, the petals of the roses<br \/>\nblow in front of my car.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eve before Halloween I visit Melissa\u2019s gravesite and place a bouquet of yellow roses against her stone. She&#8217;d be thirty years old today. The cemetery is empty, and the rain is cold against my face, but I am here. \u201cHi, Sweetie. In honor of your favorite holiday, I\u2019m having a Halloween party and celebrating [&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":[3467,6402,1814,494,6703,2838,7329,41,759,3798,7330,5521,6027,1414,1378,2545,1418,275],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birthday","tag-bouquet","tag-car","tag-cemetery","tag-eve","tag-face","tag-gravesite","tag-guest-contributor","tag-halloween","tag-holiday","tag-inside-out","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-petals","tag-rain","tag-roses","tag-stone","tag-umbrella","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}