{"id":3737,"date":"2019-11-26T18:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2019-11-26T18:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T01:26:02","slug":"numb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/11\/26\/numb\/","title":{"rendered":"Numb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m so sick of pain, Gene. I wish I couldn\u2019t feel at all.\u201d With a shaky sniffle, Emily stroked the black fur of Gene\u2019s chin, eliciting his tractor purr.<\/p>\n<p>She may never fully recover, the doctors said. They called it transverse myelitis. Emily preferred less polite terms.<\/p>\n<p>Gene\u2018s glowing eyes slid closed. Emily\u2019s followed.<\/p>\n<p>She awoke to a ringtone, heart pounding. Her thoughts reached for the phone inches away on the sofa. <\/p>\n<p>Not a muscle twitched. No sensation, as though her nerves had died. The phone fell silent. Gene\u2018s stare blazed with yellow light.<\/p>\n<p>Gene&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In her mind, Emily screamed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Michelle Cook<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m so sick of pain, Gene. I wish I couldn\u2019t feel at all.\u201d With a shaky sniffle, Emily stroked the black fur of Gene\u2019s chin, eliciting his tractor purr. She may never fully recover, the doctors said. They called it transverse myelitis. Emily preferred less polite terms. Gene\u2018s glowing eyes slid closed. Emily\u2019s followed. She [&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":[4519,429,41,749,1230,8383,2922,1538,2834,1504,3312,8385,8387,3317,8388,4811,8384,2163,3637,5630,2894,8386],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-chin","tag-doctors","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-light","tag-michelle-cook","tag-mind","tag-muscle","tag-nerves","tag-pain","tag-phone","tag-purr","tag-ringtone","tag-scream","tag-sensation","tag-silent","tag-sniffle","tag-sofa","tag-stare","tag-thoughts","tag-tractor","tag-transverse-myelitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","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=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}