{"id":4369,"date":"2020-11-30T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T01:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2020-11-30T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T01:29:04","slug":"in-its-own-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/11\/30\/in-its-own-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"In Its Own Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cTree looks unwell,\u201d stated Dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen was the last time you watered it, Robbie?\u201d Mother asked their eldest offspring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoops! I forgot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mother got the watering can out. After days of nurturing, the needles still cascaded to the floor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeed to add more decorations,\u201d Dad beamed, holding a box of icicles.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve they all gathered around the tree to sing carols. Selfies were taken between exclamations of \u201cooh and aah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristmas 2020!\u201d exclaimed Mother. \u201cCOVID-19 edition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Extended family, among them the dearly departed, stared down from their portraits on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandpa would\u2019ve loved this tree,\u201d said Robbie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From 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>\u201cTree looks unwell,\u201d stated Dad. \u201cWhen was the last time you watered it, Robbie?\u201d Mother asked their eldest offspring. \u201cWhoops! I forgot.\u201d Mother got the watering can out. After days of nurturing, the needles still cascaded to the floor. \u201cNeed to add more decorations,\u201d Dad beamed, holding a box of icicles. On Christmas Eve they [&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":[6828,9635,5688,1024,9637,8530,9636,1759,9638,3309,1411,3265,41,3224,73,4705,9634,9632,6898,1109,258,138,9633],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bird-excrement","tag-carols","tag-christmas-eve","tag-dad","tag-dearly-departed","tag-edition","tag-exclamations","tag-expedition","tag-extended-family","tag-floor","tag-glory","tag-grandpa","tag-guest-contributor","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-mother","tag-needles","tag-nurturing","tag-offspring","tag-selfies","tag-time","tag-tree","tag-wall","tag-watering-can"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","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=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}