{"id":4652,"date":"2021-06-28T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2021-06-28T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T05:37:07","slug":"spending-time-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/06\/28\/spending-time-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending Time Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I live another life between raised garden rows, meditating on what worries me the most\u2014feeling anxious about the seedlings that I\u2019ve upended from their plug trays, pushing them head first into the palm of my hand, where I take a moment to study their good health, before I shove them into dirt that\u2019s expansive as it is uncertain\u2014a space where I imagine safety is being somewhere: tomatoes belong here\u2014eggplants over there\u2014and, in-between\u2014bright, ruffled marigolds, guarding the future from an army of beetles, no bigger than poppy seeds, that seemingly ingest everything when no one\u2019s looking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor M.J.Iuppa<\/p>\n<p>M.J.\u2019s fourth poetry collection is This Thirst (Kelsay Books, 2017). For the past 33 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>I live another life between raised garden rows, meditating on what worries me the most\u2014feeling anxious about the seedlings that I\u2019ve upended from their plug trays, pushing them head first into the palm of my hand, where I take a moment to study their good health, before I shove them into dirt that\u2019s expansive as [&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":[567,7002,2660,10231,1047,10227,10230,41,2066,2191,7539,10232,2065,10229,10233,10228,7015,1109,1100],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-army","tag-beetles","tag-dirt","tag-eggplants","tag-future","tag-garden-rows","tag-good-health","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hand","tag-life","tag-m-j-iuppa","tag-marigolds","tag-palm","tag-plug-trays","tag-poppy-seeds","tag-seedlings","tag-somewhere","tag-time","tag-tomatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","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=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}