{"id":3959,"date":"2020-04-10T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2020-04-10T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T01:22:12","slug":"burning-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/10\/burning-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY:<\/p>\n<p>My elder sister Tanya and I burn portraits of Nicholas, watching his solemn eyes melting. Melting, melting. Flames envelop his beard, rising into the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the Revolution,\u201d she proclaims. \u201cWe\u2019ll be happy again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo happiness,\u201d I proclaim. I hug Tanya. She smells of sweat and oil and victory.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what will come next. We\u2019ve lost homes and positions, slaved in Siberia. She was a teacher and I, a writer. Those positions are in the past, though.<\/p>\n<p>Will we be of use? Or will the Revolution brand us too bourgeois?<\/p>\n<p>I wish the picture wouldn\u2019t burn so fast.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom 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>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY: My elder sister Tanya and I burn portraits of Nicholas, watching his solemn eyes melting. Melting, melting. Flames envelop his beard, rising into the night sky. \u201cTo the Revolution,\u201d she proclaims. \u201cWe\u2019ll be happy again.\u201d \u201cTo happiness,\u201d I proclaim. I hug Tanya. She smells of sweat and oil and victory. I wonder [&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":[4305,8869,2720,5832,41,2779,102,7344,280,4760,3775,8868,1362,7875,548,1736,3134,648,8870,8867,489,2372,8327],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beard","tag-bourgeois","tag-eyes","tag-flames","tag-guest-contributor","tag-happiness","tag-historical-fiction","tag-homes","tag-oil","tag-picture","tag-portraits","tag-positions","tag-revolution","tag-siberia","tag-sister","tag-sky","tag-sweat","tag-teacher","tag-tsar-nicholas","tag-uncertainty","tag-victory","tag-writer","tag-yash-seyedbagheri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","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=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}