{"id":3880,"date":"2020-03-03T19:59:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2020-03-03T19:59:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:59:40","slug":"abiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/03\/03\/abiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Abiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I stir the White Russian, the clink of ice so soft, tender. I should be grading papers and concentrating on how to explain Rasputin and Nicholas II to my students. I just want to abide in White Russians and ice, a creamy sea.<\/p>\n<p>I take a sip, savor cream-filled sensation. Hold onto it. Too many rules, kiss department chair\u2019s ass. Don\u2019t swear. Be responsible like Professor Gebert. Voices rise, like some discordant chorus.<\/p>\n<p>I take another sip.<\/p>\n<p>How rich I feel, world subordinated to ice-filled buzz.<\/p>\n<p>I take another small sip, trying to keep creamy seas from melting.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m losing.<\/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.  Yash\u2019s stories are forthcoming or have been published in Caf\u00e9 Lit, Mad Swirl, 50 Word Stories, and Ariel Chart, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stir the White Russian, the clink of ice so soft, tender. I should be grading papers and concentrating on how to explain Rasputin and Nicholas II to my students. I just want to abide in White Russians and ice, a creamy sea. I take a sip, savor cream-filled sensation. Hold onto it. Too many [&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":[1833,3911,6071,8638,8698,41,4191,8697,3636,1771,8696,3013,1289,8388,2900,4789,3397,547,8695,8327],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ass","tag-buzz","tag-chorus","tag-clink","tag-department-chair","tag-guest-contributor","tag-ice","tag-nicholas-ii","tag-papers","tag-professor","tag-rasputin","tag-rules","tag-sea","tag-sensation","tag-sip","tag-students","tag-swear","tag-voices","tag-white-russian","tag-yash-seyedbagheri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","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=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}