{"id":4535,"date":"2021-03-26T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:33:53","slug":"the-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/03\/26\/the-silenced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She did not say yes.<\/p>\n<p>The silence of more fear than cultural respect was not a sign of consent. The tears on her face at the dawn of her &#8216;big day&#8217; were not a sign of consent.<\/p>\n<p>The lashes fell upon her, one, two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She had dreamt of wearing green for her wedding. Red was her mother&#8217;s choice.<\/p>\n<p>His voice was loud it silenced her lips.<br \/>\nNinety-eight or was it already past hundred? She&#8217;d later count the scars on her back, looking at her reflection in the broken mirror stained with blood.<\/p>\n<p>She never wanted marriage.<br \/>\nShe never wanted this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Anne Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Anne is a student writer from Sri Lanka. She publishes her writing on social media as Poetry of Despair.<br \/>\nYou can read them at www.instagram.com\/PoetryofDespair.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She did not say yes. The silence of more fear than cultural respect was not a sign of consent. The tears on her face at the dawn of her &#8216;big day&#8217; were not a sign of consent. The lashes fell upon her, one, two&#8230; She had dreamt of wearing green for her wedding. Red was [&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":[10006,2776,10009,281,2391,10010,10007,2106,899,41,10011,3705,552,1347,73,2747,3476,1450,10008,1838,1323,2362,1376,5339],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-anne-silva","tag-back","tag-big-day","tag-blood","tag-choice","tag-consent","tag-cultural-respect","tag-dawn","tag-fear","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lashes","tag-lips","tag-marriage","tag-mirror","tag-mother","tag-red","tag-reflection","tag-scars","tag-sign-of-consent","tag-silence","tag-tears","tag-voice","tag-wedding","tag-yes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","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=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}