{"id":4520,"date":"2021-03-17T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:15:48","slug":"welcome-back-class-of-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/03\/17\/welcome-back-class-of-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back, Class Of &#8217;96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cDo you want me to hold the&#8230;?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song is about to start, something by Vanessa Williams. His one good hand is pressing on her waist. She does not know what to call the other one, the absence.  <\/p>\n<p>He shakes. \u201cI can just put my arm here.\u201d  He rests his folded sleeve on her pink shoulder strap. They have been given a wide berth by the other couples on the gym floor.<\/p>\n<p>They shuffle together in silence.  Finally, she asks. \u201cHow did\u2014?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He shrugs.  \u201cCleaning the picker.\u201d  Somebody had turned it on by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes.  It tickles. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Brennan Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you want me to hold the&#8230;?\u201d The song is about to start, something by Vanessa Williams. His one good hand is pressing on her waist. She does not know what to call the other one, the absence. He shakes. \u201cI can just put my arm here.\u201d He rests his folded sleeve on her pink [&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":[3799,7369,9969,5292,3516,41,9967,2066,2742,9968,9965,1838,9548,1084,9964,6715,9966],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-absence","tag-absences","tag-brennan-thomas","tag-class","tag-couples","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gym-floor","tag-hand","tag-mistake","tag-picker","tag-shoulder-strap","tag-silence","tag-sleeve","tag-song","tag-vanessa-williams","tag-waist","tag-wide-berth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}