{"id":3916,"date":"2020-03-25T22:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2020-03-25T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:29:21","slug":"his-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/03\/25\/his-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"His Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The only thing left of him was the plant. They\u2019d taken everything else. Emptied every cupboard. Every last scrap. It\u2019s their right, of course. They\u2019re family. Me, just a roommate. As far as they knew, anyway. A roommate. Maybe a friend. Nothing more, surely. No reason to think otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>There in the kitchen windowsill, his plant. Thin, green and white. Spidery. They hadn\u2019t known it was his. I didn\u2019t tell them. I\u2019ll keep it alive now that he can\u2019t. I\u2019m no good at that, but I\u2019ll learn. I have to.<\/p>\n<p>Keep it alive. Keep him alive, by my side.<\/p>\n<p>Forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/louisesnape.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Louise Snape<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Louise is a speculative fiction writer of Dutch and French origin and a graduate of Oxford Brookes University\u2019s MA in Creative Writing. She dabbles in poetry, short fiction, and is currently working on writing her first YA fantasy novel.<\/p>\n<p> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing left of him was the plant. They\u2019d taken everything else. Emptied every cupboard. Every last scrap. It\u2019s their right, of course. They\u2019re family. Me, just a roommate. As far as they knew, anyway. A roommate. Maybe a friend. Nothing more, surely. No reason to think otherwise. There in the kitchen windowsill, his [&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":[4517,614,3890,4727,41,1097,8777,4557,8779,8780,8778,6587],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cupboard","tag-family","tag-forever","tag-friend","tag-guest-contributor","tag-kitchen","tag-louise-snape","tag-plant","tag-right","tag-roommate","tag-scrap","tag-windowsill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}