{"id":4490,"date":"2021-02-23T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2021-02-23T18:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:50:17","slug":"she-would-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/02\/23\/she-would-be-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"She Would Be Worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sometimes, words were just not enough. She took<\/p>\n<p>snapshots daily\u2014 her plated meals of living alone.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation of how these fresh organic tastes<\/p>\n<p>styled homespun comfort, like an old friend who<\/p>\n<p>knew how to sit across from her and not say any-<\/p>\n<p>thing, and waited until the meal\u2019s dialog was lost in<\/p>\n<p>a twitchy laugh; always with an index finger raised<\/p>\n<p>to red lips to snuff out the danger of being intimate.<\/p>\n<p>She liked the idea of having company; but didn\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>want to show anyone where she truly lived. Pst\u2014<\/p>\n<p>pst, pst\u2014 this secret joke exploded in her head.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor M.J.Iuppa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>M.J. Iuppa\u2019s fourth poetry collection is This Thirst (Kelsay Books, 2017). For the past 32 years, she has lived on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Check out her blog: mjiuppa.blogspot.com for her musings on writing, sustainability &#038; life\u2019s stew.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, words were just not enough. She took snapshots daily\u2014 her plated meals of living alone. No explanation of how these fresh organic tastes styled homespun comfort, like an old friend who knew how to sit across from her and not say any- thing, and waited until the meal\u2019s dialog was lost in a twitchy [&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":[4588,341,957,9892,5949,41,6362,9891,212,3282,3705,7539,3372,9890,9065,9889],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-comfort","tag-company","tag-danger","tag-dialog","tag-explanation","tag-guest-contributor","tag-idea","tag-index-finge","tag-joke","tag-laugh","tag-lips","tag-m-j-iuppa","tag-meal","tag-old-friend","tag-organic","tag-tastes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","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=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}