{"id":4043,"date":"2020-05-20T17:41:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T00:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2020-05-20T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T00:41:29","slug":"waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/05\/20\/waiting-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cI hate this waiting,\u201d grumbled Rob.<\/p>\n<p>In childhood years he waited countless hours for his mother\u2019s homemade cookies. He sprung leaks in pj\u2019s waiting for a sister to leave their one and only bathroom. College dates made him wait outside their apartments. He didn\u2019t know why but when they emerged they looked gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>Now this. Physical distancing to get necessities. Because of a virus.<\/p>\n<p>Rob\u2019s phone rang. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still waiting in a lineup for the pharmacy,\u201d said his wife. \u201cAt least a dozen shoppers before me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob stepped inside the grocery store smiling, relegating another \u2018wait\u2019 time to the past.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She resides in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, stuffed animals and many friends.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI hate this waiting,\u201d grumbled Rob. In childhood years he waited countless hours for his mother\u2019s homemade cookies. He sprung leaks in pj\u2019s waiting for a sister to leave their one and only bathroom. College dates made him wait outside their apartments. He didn\u2019t know why but when they emerged they looked gorgeous. Now this. [&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":[9025,814,4318,4605,7531,9024,9026,3996,2479,4796,41,3224,7684,9027,3312,9023,6645,548,6951,1109,1662,1290,153],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-apartments","tag-bathroom","tag-childhood","tag-college","tag-cookies","tag-dates","tag-distancing","tag-dozen","tag-game","tag-grocery-store","tag-guest-contributor","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-necessities","tag-pharmacy","tag-phone","tag-pjs","tag-shoppers","tag-sister","tag-the-past","tag-time","tag-virus","tag-waiting","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","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=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}