{"id":4451,"date":"2021-01-29T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T01:30:49","slug":"the-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/01\/29\/the-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A red-tailed hawk screeched as it circled above. Grandfather pointed and said, \u201cThat is your spirit animal, my little one. You are a chosen one. It carries a message for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do I do, Grandfather?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClear your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow will I know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen your mind is clear, the message will come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to hear, but there is no message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop trying, clear your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An eerie stillness settled in. \u201cWhat will happen when they dig the new mine, Grandfather?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old man looked at the hawk circling and said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old man smiled.<\/p>\n<p> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor NT Franklin<\/p>\n<p>NT has been published in Page and Spine, Fiction on the Web, 101 Words, Friday Flash Fiction, CafeLit, Madswirl, Postcard Shorts, 404 Words, Scarlet Leaf Review, Freedom Fiction, Burrst, Entropy, Alsina Publishing, Fifty-word stories, Dime Show Review, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A red-tailed hawk screeched as it circled above. Grandfather pointed and said, \u201cThat is your spirit animal, my little one. You are a chosen one. It carries a message for you.\u201d \u201cWhat do I do, Grandfather?\u201d \u201cClear your mind.\u201d \u201cHow will I know?\u201d \u201cWhen your mind is clear, the message will come.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m trying to [&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":[9817,1476,41,9815,3910,2922,4612,5484,1699,9816,1714,4681],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-chosen-one","tag-grandfather","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hawk","tag-message","tag-mind","tag-mine","tag-nt-franklin","tag-old-man","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-spirit-animal","tag-stillness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","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=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}