{"id":4068,"date":"2020-06-02T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T00:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2020-06-02T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T00:49:10","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/06\/02\/the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m already sitting in the grass, cross-legged, when you meet me after class. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d I say as you sit. \u201cI forgot your book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring it Thursday.\u201d You smile. \u201cWe\u2019re almost done. I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of campus trudges past. I\u2019ve had your favorite book for months\u2014and I\u2019m not forgetting it so much as I\u2019m scared to give up this piece of you, the only one I have. \u201cWon\u2019t you miss this, once we\u2019re done?\u201d I ask. \u201cIt\u2019s our last finals week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe someday,\u201d you say, and look away.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening sun your white t-shirt turns golden. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Natalie Schriefer <\/p>\n<p>Natalie received her MFA from Southern Connecticut State University. She works as a freelance writer and editor. Home base: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natalieschriefer.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.natalieschriefer.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m already sitting in the grass, cross-legged, when you meet me after class. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d I say as you sit. \u201cI forgot your book.\u201d \u201cBring it Thursday.\u201d You smile. \u201cWe\u2019re almost done. I can\u2019t wait.\u201d The rest of campus trudges past. I\u2019ve had your favorite book for months\u2014and I\u2019m not forgetting it so much as [&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":[164,8328,5292,7644,529,41,9072,6500,1531,5874,9073],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-book","tag-campus","tag-class","tag-finals","tag-grass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-natalie-schriefer","tag-piece","tag-sun","tag-t-shirt","tag-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}