{"id":3835,"date":"2020-02-04T21:19:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T04:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2020-02-05T20:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T03:43:59","slug":"embers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/02\/04\/embers\/","title":{"rendered":"Embers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He thinks he sees her again and he\u2019s mesmerized by her perfection. <\/p>\n<p>He watches her and remembers his perfect past; remembers what it was like for him all those many years ago when, returning home, he&#8217;d find the perfect woman there, smiling, standing beside the fireplace, close to the fire, waiting.  He can\u2019t always recall her name, but he remembers the fire and her smile; the perfectly soft glow, the welcoming warmth.<\/p>\n<p>These are the benedictions of age, he thinks. Even when the fire burns low, there is memory and imagination; even in an empty room I am never alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ron. Lavalette<\/p>\n<p>Find Ron. Lavalette\u2019s work at: <a href=\"http:\/\/eggsovertokyo.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">EGGS OVER TOKYO<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He thinks he sees her again and he\u2019s mesmerized by her perfection. He watches her and remembers his perfect past; remembers what it was like for him all those many years ago when, returning home, he&#8217;d find the perfect woman there, smiling, standing beside the fireplace, close to the fire, waiting. He can\u2019t always recall [&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":[1016,8610,8609,8611,781,7423,4344,41,1128,6330,1159,5567,3586,7494,4869,2382,5460],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-age","tag-benedictions","tag-embers","tag-empty-room","tag-fire","tag-fireplace","tag-glow","tag-guest-contributor","tag-imagination","tag-low","tag-memory","tag-name","tag-perfection","tag-ron-lavalette","tag-warmth","tag-woman","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","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=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}