{"id":3767,"date":"2019-12-17T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2019-12-19T00:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T07:25:53","slug":"one-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/12\/17\/one-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"One Last Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Be a good boy,&#8221; said my mother. &#8220;Stop playing cricket in the graveyard with you likkle hooligan friend. I don\u2019t want to hear that you trying to see duppies by washing you face with rice water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t want to disappoint my mother, a God-fearing woman, who left Jamaica ten Christmases ago to work as a hospice nurse in Miami, comforting the soon-to-be dead. I&#8217;d been a good boy until last week when she came home in a box. So who could blame me (and I know she would forgive me) if I tried to see her one last time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Geoffrey Philp<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookfusion.com\/books\/116198-garvey-s-ghost\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Garvey&#8217;s Ghost<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Be a good boy,&#8221; said my mother. &#8220;Stop playing cricket in the graveyard with you likkle hooligan friend. I don\u2019t want to hear that you trying to see duppies by washing you face with rice water.&#8221; I didn\u2019t want to disappoint my mother, a God-fearing woman, who left Jamaica ten Christmases ago to work as [&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":[3099,250,42,8467,999,4727,6371,108,492,41,134,8468,4719,8470,4088,73,6035,8469,1109],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-box","tag-boy","tag-christmas","tag-cricket","tag-dead","tag-friend","tag-geoffrey-philp","tag-god","tag-graveyard","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-hooligan","tag-hospice","tag-jamaica","tag-miami","tag-mother","tag-nurse","tag-rice-water","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}