{"id":4447,"date":"2021-01-27T17:57:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2021-01-27T17:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:57:49","slug":"muscle-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/01\/27\/muscle-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Other residents would cradle baby dolls, designed to match the heft of a newborn. But for Grandpa, who\u2019d been one of America\u2019s top reporters, only a typewriter would do. It didn\u2019t even need paper; as the nurses discovered, simply sitting at the antique Olivetti was enough to quell his nightmares. Though his mind was gone, his fingers retained echoes of his memories, shaping them into the staccato sound of clacking keys.<\/p>\n<p>He would sit there, morning to night, at his little utilitarian desk. And while he never produced a single page, we still cherished each and every word he wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KesheWrites\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keshe Chow<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other residents would cradle baby dolls, designed to match the heft of a newborn. But for Grandpa, who\u2019d been one of America\u2019s top reporters, only a typewriter would do. It didn\u2019t even need paper; as the nurses discovered, simply sitting at the antique Olivetti was enough to quell his nightmares. Though his mind was gone, [&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":[310,8190,9807,2265,2749,3265,41,9808,9804,6172,2772,2922,2921,9806,8045,2665,5144,9809,9810,2271,192,9805,2914,9811,2273,5165],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-america","tag-antique","tag-baby-dolls","tag-desk","tag-fingers","tag-grandpa","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heft","tag-keshe-chow","tag-keys","tag-memories","tag-mind","tag-morning","tag-muscle-memory","tag-newborn","tag-night","tag-nightmares","tag-nurses","tag-olivetti","tag-page","tag-reporter","tag-residents","tag-sound","tag-staccato","tag-typewriter","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}