{"id":3478,"date":"2019-04-02T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:50:07","slug":"his-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/04\/02\/his-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"His Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He returned to their place, behind a shrub. Where they as teenagers<br \/>\nwatched practitioners exit a church. Where he kissed away her tears<br \/>\nafter her father walked out, showering affection on a stranger.<\/p>\n<p>She, the girl he played tag with in childhood. The one he dated<br \/>\nthrough high school. The one he wrote to after he moved out of the<br \/>\ncity, and her letters stopped abruptly.<\/p>\n<p>He watched between raindrops clinging to leafless branches. She exited<br \/>\nthe church on the arm of another man. Wedding procession followed.<\/p>\n<p>Rainstorm may have passed, but the storm in his mind had only intensified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs<\/p>\n<p>Krystyna is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She<br \/>\nresides in Edmonton, Canada with her husband and stuffed animals and<br \/>\nmany friends.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He returned to their place, behind a shrub. Where they as teenagers watched practitioners exit a church. Where he kissed away her tears after her father walked out, showering affection on a stranger. She, the girl he played tag with in childhood. The one he dated through high school. The one he wrote to after [&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":[2707,7791,2135,2200,4318,1738,1564,1350,1107,41,91,2052,3224,3284,2922,7787,7789,7792,3451,7793,7788,3381,2656,7790,1323,601,1376],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-affection","tag-another-man","tag-arm","tag-branches","tag-childhood","tag-church","tag-city","tag-father","tag-girl","tag-guest-contributor","tag-high-school","tag-kiss","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-letters","tag-mind","tag-place","tag-practictioners","tag-procession","tag-raindrops","tag-rainstorm","tag-shrub","tag-storm","tag-stranger","tag-tag","tag-tears","tag-teenagers","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","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=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}