{"id":4591,"date":"2021-05-03T20:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2021-05-03T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T03:05:57","slug":"determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/05\/03\/determination\/","title":{"rendered":"Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Through the stained-glass window, the heat of the sun beams on my face while mellifluous birds chirp in unison. I yearn to be outside on this spring day, listening to the sounds of nature, and children\u2019s chortles, but my body lays limp.<\/p>\n<p>Something is wrong. The hospital is bustling, and I hear shouting. \u201cHe is coding!\u201d  The doctor is giving orders and then I hear the sound of the defibrillator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClear!\u201d Thump. \u201cAgain.\u201d \u201cClear!\u201d Thump. \u201cAgain.\u201d \u201cClear!\u201d Thump.<\/p>\n<p>The monitor steadies and the doctor sighs relief. \u201cHe has stabilized. This patient is determined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After my arduous episode, I rest soundly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the stained-glass window, the heat of the sun beams on my face while mellifluous birds chirp in unison. I yearn to be outside on this spring day, listening to the sounds of nature, and children\u2019s chortles, but my body lays limp. Something is wrong. The hospital is bustling, and I hear shouting. \u201cHe is [&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":[1180,1677,113,10130,10131,8724,1082,7245,41,1268,292,5521,6253,8189,3939,5306,10129,10128,10127,1531],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birds","tag-body","tag-children","tag-chortles","tag-defribrillator","tag-determination","tag-doctor","tag-episode","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heat","tag-hospital","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-monitor","tag-orders","tag-patient","tag-shouting","tag-sounds-of-nature","tag-spring-day","tag-stained-glass-window","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","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=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}