{"id":4425,"date":"2021-01-11T20:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2021-01-11T20:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:52:39","slug":"token-of-christmas-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/01\/11\/token-of-christmas-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"Token Of Christmas Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man shuffled down a city block, ringing doorbells. His spirit motivated by optimism. <\/p>\n<p>With mounting rejections, hopelessness soon took over. He had an inkling of what they were thinking: another solicitor, begging on behalf of a charity. He would prove otherwise if given a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Last house. He paused. Should he ring? A smiling child waved through the picture window. The front door opened. A woman appeared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry, I have little cash,\u201d she said, noting his disheveled appearance.<\/p>\n<p>He left with a bag of festive cookies gifted by her; a token of appreciation for his shoveling of her walkways.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She is based in Edmonton, Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man shuffled down a city block, ringing doorbells. His spirit motivated by optimism. With mounting rejections, hopelessness soon took over. He had an inkling of what they were thinking: another solicitor, begging on behalf of a charity. He would prove otherwise if given a chance. Last house. He paused. Should he ring? A smiling [&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":[7402,9124,1103,9325,3205,9746,2870,42,9747,7531,9748,3292,41,9751,9375,9749,9753,2035,9750,9752,3781,9745,9754],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-appearance","tag-appreciation","tag-cash","tag-chance","tag-charity","tag-cheer","tag-child","tag-christmas","tag-city-block","tag-cookies","tag-doorbells","tag-front-door","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hopelessness","tag-inkling","tag-optimism","tag-otherwise","tag-picture-window","tag-rejections","tag-solicitor","tag-spirit","tag-token","tag-walkways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","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=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}