{"id":3758,"date":"2019-12-11T21:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T04:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2019-12-11T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T04:51:03","slug":"postcards-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/12\/11\/postcards-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards Of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mother loves postcards. I wish you could see this cathedral. I miss you. I have been constrained by tradition. I move from friend to friend. Wake in one bedroom, slumber in another. No personal markers, photos. Gifts conveying motherly intimacy. My favorite Yates novel, a radio, a train set. Living with Mother was rife with frenetic energy once Dad left. He called her a senseless dreamer. Life was defined by bottles, hissing wine. Cackling laughter, dissolved smiles. I want Mother at ease. Instead, I conjure her flitting about cathedrals, mistaking facades for joy. I tell her I\u2019m happy. Try to believe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Yash Seyedbagheri <\/p>\n<p>Yash is a graduate of Colorado State University&#8217;s MFA program in fiction. His story &#8220;Soon,&#8221; was nominated for a Pushcart and he has also had work nominated for The Best Small Fictions. Yash&#8217;s work is forthcoming or has been published in journals such as 50-Word Stories, Silent Auctions, City. River. Tree. and Ariel Chart. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother loves postcards. I wish you could see this cathedral. I miss you. I have been constrained by tradition. I move from friend to friend. Wake in one bedroom, slumber in another. No personal markers, photos. Gifts conveying motherly intimacy. My favorite Yates novel, a radio, a train set. Living with Mother was rife with [&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":[1359,7755,6944,1024,8440,290,5265,4727,4338,41,3102,1762,2191,8437,73,2155,1941,8436,2570,4229,4077,8439,1796,8327,8438],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bedroom","tag-bottles","tag-cathedral","tag-dad","tag-dreamer","tag-energy","tag-facades","tag-friend","tag-gifts","tag-guest-contributor","tag-joy","tag-laughter","tag-life","tag-markers","tag-mother","tag-novel","tag-photos","tag-postcards","tag-radio","tag-smiles","tag-tradition","tag-train-set","tag-wine","tag-yash-seyedbagheri","tag-yates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","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=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}