{"id":3856,"date":"2020-02-15T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2020-02-17T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T03:25:58","slug":"obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/02\/15\/obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are you addicted to chocolate?  Creamy on the tongue.  Eat it all you want, whenever you want it.  Secretly in your room, for you and nobody else.  Life\u2019s hard.  Chocolate melting in your mouth makes you whole.  Briefly.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll call you an addict.  They\u2019ll tell you to get help.<\/p>\n<p>Are you addicted to a person?  Soft in your ear.  Ring her, mail her, message her all you want, whenever you want her.  Secretly in her arms, you and nobody else.  Life\u2019s hard.  Melting into her softness makes you whole.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll call you in love.  They\u2019ll tell you you\u2019re lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Amita Basu <\/p>\n<p>Amita is a graduate student of cognitive science.  Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Right-Eyed Deer, Gasher, St. Katherine Review, Star 82 Review, Proem, Muse India, and Dove Tales.  Her nonfiction has appeared in Countercurrents and Deccan Herald.  She has finished a collection of literary short stories, and is working on a mystery novel about art.  She lives in Bangalore, India.  <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you addicted to chocolate? Creamy on the tongue. Eat it all you want, whenever you want it. Secretly in your room, for you and nobody else. Life\u2019s hard. Chocolate melting in your mouth makes you whole. Briefly. They\u2019ll call you an addict. They\u2019ll tell you to get help. Are you addicted to a person? [&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":[8650,8648,1493,2174,8649,2191,600,2212,1526,3510,8651,3370],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-addict","tag-amita-basu","tag-chocolate","tag-ear","tag-guest-gontributor","tag-life","tag-love","tag-mouth","tag-obsession","tag-room","tag-softness","tag-tongue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","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=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}