{"id":3614,"date":"2019-08-19T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T22:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2019-08-22T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T03:04:15","slug":"maxine-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/08\/19\/maxine-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxine and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Linda bought it for me at the museum gala. &#8220;So many wonderful things for a donation.&#8221; she said, &#8220;You should have come, my dear! Meet new people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s part mother, part matchmaker. I need both.<\/p>\n<p>But do I need this? A burnt, ugly, pockmarked lump of rock. The note with it read &#8220;Deaccessioned. Meteorite acquired by Dr. Harris, Labrador 1905. Once much larger, visitors took pieces for many years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My friend must think I&#8217;m like this thing. Dark, scarred. Fragmentary since Bruce left. <\/p>\n<p>I call it Maxine. Sits brooding under a lamp on my desk. We keep each other company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Karen Walker<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda bought it for me at the museum gala. &#8220;So many wonderful things for a donation.&#8221; she said, &#8220;You should have come, my dear! Meet new people.&#8221; She&#8217;s part mother, part matchmaker. I need both. But do I need this? A burnt, ugly, pockmarked lump of rock. The note with it read &#8220;Deaccessioned. Meteorite acquired [&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":[341,7135,2265,1165,4727,8101,41,8100,3728,1723,5640,8103,8104,73,715,4584,4539,8102,2882],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-company","tag-dear","tag-desk","tag-donation","tag-friend","tag-gala","tag-guest-contributor","tag-karen-walker","tag-labrador","tag-lamp","tag-lump","tag-matchmaker","tag-meteorite","tag-mother","tag-museum","tag-note","tag-rock","tag-things","tag-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","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=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}