{"id":3982,"date":"2020-04-20T19:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T02:06:15","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/20\/courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I help you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8230;I just need a stamp, please.\u201d he stammers, tapping his envelope on the counter. \u201cDo&#8230;do you have anything interesting?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot in singles.\u201d She crinkles her nose, mirroring his disappointment. \u201cA Purple Heart?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerfect.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>His quarter and her first-class stamp exchange hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFront box picks up at five. Still time to get that in today\u2019s mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the door, he affixes the stamp and writes out the address. He retrieves the long-carried letter that starts \u2018Dear&#8230;Mom?\u2019 and tucks it inside.  He seals it, takes a deeper breath, and passes the letter through the slot.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Scott Burnam<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY: \u201cCan I help you?\u201d \u201cI&#8230;I just need a stamp, please.\u201d he stammers, tapping his envelope on the counter. \u201cDo&#8230;do you have anything interesting?\u201d \u201cNot in singles.\u201d She crinkles her nose, mirroring his disappointment. \u201cA Purple Heart?\u201d \u201cPerfect.\u201d His quarter and her first-class stamp exchange hands. \u201cFront box picks up at five. Still [&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":[2904,3099,2520,5328,5848,3347,8923,41,102,2979,2981,1023,2211,4103,8922,8920,8921,6902,8895],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-address","tag-box","tag-breath","tag-counter","tag-disappointment","tag-envelope","tag-first-class","tag-guest-contributor","tag-historical-fiction","tag-letter","tag-mail","tag-mom","tag-nose","tag-perfect","tag-purple-heart","tag-scott-burnam","tag-singles","tag-slot","tag-stamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","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=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}