{"id":4384,"date":"2020-12-09T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T01:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2020-12-09T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T01:45:49","slug":"assembly-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/12\/09\/assembly-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His parents were poorly assembled themselves. Throw meth and booze into it, and no wonder he grew into a discombobulated mess.<\/p>\n<p>Those who tried to help fled after one too many black eyes from his spazzed-out fists. Well-meaning therapists nodded blankly as he sobbed.<\/p>\n<p>One part worked, though: his left pinkie.<\/p>\n<p>Undoing himself was no walk in the park; piecing himself together was the challenge of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Through trial and error, he bravely persevered.<\/p>\n<p>And one day, like a miracle, all his parts beautifully aligned\u2014with only an occasional faint clicking sound to remind him how far he\u2019d come.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Michelle Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Wilson\u2019s words have appeared in Entropy Squared, 50-Word Stories, 101 Words, Literally Stories, The Miami Herald, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida. Sometimes, she can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@wilsmk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His parents were poorly assembled themselves. Throw meth and booze into it, and no wonder he grew into a discombobulated mess. Those who tried to help fled after one too many black eyes from his spazzed-out fists. Well-meaning therapists nodded blankly as he sobbed. One part worked, though: his left pinkie. Undoing himself was no [&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":[9663,9665,5290,4133,2815,41,3669,2448,5277,9509,1104,9664,649,8656,9667,2914,9666,9669,9668],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-assembly","tag-black-eyes","tag-booze","tag-challenge","tag-fists","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lifetime","tag-mess","tag-meth","tag-michelle-wilson","tag-miracle","tag-no-wonder","tag-parents","tag-parts","tag-pinkie","tag-sound","tag-therapists","tag-trial-and-error","tag-walk-in-the-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","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=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}