{"id":3942,"date":"2020-04-03T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:58:08","slug":"divorced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/03\/divorced\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m the son of divorce to the neighborhood. Parents keep me from their children. They don\u2019t know my pedigree, they claim. Nothing against me personally.<\/p>\n<p>They know about Dad and his liaisons. They slander over smiles and Sinatra. Mother\u2019s a \u201chysteric.\u201d Can\u2019t keep a husband. Son\u2019s a bastard.<\/p>\n<p>Mother wears starched smiles for neighbors, weeps at night.<\/p>\n<p>I want to fight. I want Mother to smile. Let neighbors hate me for loving Elvis, not for Dad\u2019s idiocy. I want to cruise the streets, to be called friend. Best friend.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be considered hysterical to mention this.<\/p>\n<p>I don a smile.<\/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. Yash\u2019s work is forthcoming or has been published in WestWard Quarterly, Caf\u00e9 Lit, 50 Word Stories, (mac)ro (mic), and Ariel Chart.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m the son of divorce to the neighborhood. Parents keep me from their children. They don\u2019t know my pedigree, they claim. Nothing against me personally. They know about Dad and his liaisons. They slander over smiles and Sinatra. Mother\u2019s a \u201chysteric.\u201d Can\u2019t keep a husband. Son\u2019s a bastard. Mother wears starched smiles for neighbors, weeps [&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":[1028,2733,113,1024,2869,8592,41,1285,8832,8830,2102,3162,2665,649,8829,8831,4229,1730,5100,8327],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bastard","tag-best-friend","tag-children","tag-dad","tag-divorce","tag-elvis","tag-guest-contributor","tag-husband","tag-idiocy","tag-liaisons","tag-neighborhood","tag-neighbors","tag-night","tag-parents","tag-pedigree","tag-sinatra","tag-smiles","tag-son","tag-streets","tag-yash-seyedbagheri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}