{"id":4623,"date":"2021-06-04T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2021-06-04T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:33:14","slug":"the-price-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/06\/04\/the-price-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ozone scent of the ocean reminds me how much I have sacrificed to be here: friends, family, home, heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Was it worth it? Most days, yes, but on black days \u2013 every step painful \u2013 I find myself back before the water.<\/p>\n<p>Mother warned me. But I knew better. \u201cYou don\u2019t choose who you fall for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark my words, no good came of such a union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I brushed it aside \u2013 another of her fables.<\/p>\n<p>He is a devoted husband, but he cannot bridge the loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>I lose myself in the roaring of the waves: a world I can no longer enter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihussainwriter.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iqbal Hussain<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ozone scent of the ocean reminds me how much I have sacrificed to be here: friends, family, home, heritage. Was it worth it? Most days, yes, but on black days \u2013 every step painful \u2013 I find myself back before the water. Mother warned me. But I knew better. \u201cYou don\u2019t choose who you [&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":[7022,10185,614,116,41,1051,134,1285,10182,9581,600,73,10184,282,10183,3269,10186,2140,6674,1828,177,1461,37,3880],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-days","tag-fables","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heritage","tag-home","tag-husband","tag-iqbal-hussain","tag-loneliness","tag-love","tag-mother","tag-no-good","tag-ocean","tag-ozone","tag-price","tag-roaring","tag-scent","tag-step","tag-union","tag-water","tag-waves","tag-words","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","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=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}