{"id":4437,"date":"2021-01-20T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T02:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2021-01-20T19:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T02:41:39","slug":"the-paisley-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/01\/20\/the-paisley-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paisley Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We couldn\u2019t afford real tattoos \u2013 we were too young, anyway \u2013 so we borrowed a stick-and-poke kit and I let Jim attempt a yin-yang symbol on my back. Mom called Jim the artistic twin; said he needed an outlet \u2013 but that was the encouragement of a mother loving her son too hard. His sweaty hands shook and slipped; after an hour, he quit, and we never spoke of it again. On our eighteenth birthday I had my brother\u2019s work converted to a paisley that I\u2019d later recreate for a favorite tie; Jim spent his money on a different set of needles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Rich Gravelin <\/p>\n<p>Rich writes short fiction from the woods of central Maine. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We couldn\u2019t afford real tattoos \u2013 we were too young, anyway \u2013 so we borrowed a stick-and-poke kit and I let Jim attempt a yin-yang symbol on my back. Mom called Jim the artistic twin; said he needed an outlet \u2013 but that was the encouragement of a mother loving her son too hard. His [&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":[3467,8357,9787,1023,590,4705,4208,9791,9789,7782,1730,9788,5241,267,188,4067,9790],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birthday","tag-encouragement","tag-kit","tag-mom","tag-money","tag-needles","tag-outlet","tag-paisley","tag-poke","tag-set","tag-son","tag-stick","tag-symbol","tag-tattoo","tag-tie","tag-twin","tag-yin-yang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}