{"id":4178,"date":"2020-07-23T17:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:29:31","slug":"dear-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/07\/23\/dear-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Your 9 a.m. is my six. Once again, you didn\u2019t leave a message. I was asleep, and not dreaming of my youth. Or Bobby Short at the Carlyle, Yul Brynner as the King. The Oak Room, their scotch so expensive I almost gave it up. Since I\u2019m awake now, I\u2019ve begun my day. Doing the wash. Starting breakfast. Wondering what it is you want. Why not cast me aside as just another woman who headed west when the buildings fell? Here, the mountains are tall, the sea, a pebble\u2019s throw away. I know it\u2019s you, New York. Calling me home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Linda Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Linda&#8217;s stories and poems have appeared in Outlook Springs, A Story in 100 Words, What Rough Beast, the New Verse News, Misfit Magazine, and others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your 9 a.m. is my six. Once again, you didn\u2019t leave a message. I was asleep, and not dreaming of my youth. Or Bobby Short at the Carlyle, Yul Brynner as the King. The Oak Room, their scotch so expensive I almost gave it up. Since I\u2019m awake now, I\u2019ve begun my day. Doing the [&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":[733,3907,41,134,7920,3910,1055,1383,9260,3052,1289,9255,9257,9258,9261,9259,2382,266,9256],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-breakfast","tag-buildings","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-linda-lowe","tag-message","tag-mountains","tag-new-york","tag-pebble","tag-scotch","tag-sea","tag-the-carlyle","tag-the-king","tag-the-wash","tag-throw","tag-west","tag-woman","tag-youth","tag-yul-brynner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","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=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}