{"id":4654,"date":"2021-06-29T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T20:54:28","slug":"keeping-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/06\/29\/keeping-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t tell your mother,\u201d whispered Harold, sweeping up porcelain pieces as Jacob walked in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGee, Dad, she\u2019ll explode when she finds out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I ordered a replacement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the doorbell rang, Carrie raced to the door. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you order anything?\u201d she asked Harold who happened to appear alongside. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes I did,\u201d he mumbled. \u201cI\u2019ll open it in my office, after my next Zoom meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At dinner, everyone gathered in the dining room. Carrie glanced at the China cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrange,\u201d she uttered. \u201cI\u2019m certain that figurine has blonde hair, not red.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacob turned his head the other way to smile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She resides in Edmonton, Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t tell your mother,\u201d whispered Harold, sweeping up porcelain pieces as Jacob walked in. \u201cGee, Dad, she\u2019ll explode when she finds out.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s why I ordered a replacement.\u201d When the doorbell rang, Carrie raced to the door. \u201cDid you order anything?\u201d she asked Harold who happened to appear alongside. \u201cYes I did,\u201d he mumbled. \u201cI\u2019ll [&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":[10238,10236,861,4928,338,3665,10237,41,3224,73,186,9222,10234,8002,10235],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blonde-hair","tag-cabinet","tag-china","tag-dining-room","tag-dinner","tag-doorbell","tag-figurine","tag-guest-contributor","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-mother","tag-office","tag-porcelain","tag-replacement","tag-secrets","tag-zoom-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","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=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}