{"id":3818,"date":"2020-01-17T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2020-01-17T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:54:53","slug":"blessed-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/01\/17\/blessed-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Near dawn a rooster crowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMary died,\u201d the midwife said, \u201cI couldn\u2019t save her, but you have been blessed with a baby boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John pounded the table with his fist and with a heave, overturned it. The cup and saucer clattered to the floor while the wails and cries of an infant traveled from the other side of a closed door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod why did you take her?\u201d he keened.<\/p>\n<p>The midwife returned from the other room and placed the tiny child into his arms.<\/p>\n<p>John prayed the baby would die. His life would be worthless without Mary. Damn the child.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Catherine Shields<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near dawn a rooster crowed. \u201cMary died,\u201d the midwife said, \u201cI couldn\u2019t save her, but you have been blessed with a baby boy.\u201d John pounded the table with his fist and with a heave, overturned it. The cup and saucer clattered to the floor while the wails and cries of an infant traveled from the [&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":[758,8578,2870,7262,3704,2274,2106,2563,3309,108,41,8580,2181,2191,8579,2798,2891,3221,8581],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-baby","tag-catherine-shields","tag-child","tag-cries","tag-cup","tag-curse","tag-dawn","tag-fist","tag-floor","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heave","tag-infant","tag-life","tag-midwife","tag-rooster","tag-saucer","tag-table","tag-wails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","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=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}