{"id":4674,"date":"2021-07-12T18:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2021-07-16T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T00:36:05","slug":"hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/07\/12\/hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My mother&#8217;s hands frail and worked. Her crepey paper fingers and running rivers of lines pass along the hilly blue mounds of veins. Many cultures stand proud of ages proof as it displays wisdom, strength\u2014a life lived. Honored one should be of the achievement\u2014living.<\/p>\n<p>What do they know?<\/p>\n<p>I watch as these hands perform tasks, ones they always have, no longer recognizing them. They are not my mothers anymore; they are mine. The words wisdom\u2014a life lived whisper at my ear, and I try to catch them in the wind. These hands\u2014I want to obliterate them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Dianne C. Braley <\/p>\n<p>Dianne is a nurse freelance writer and blogger from Hamilton, Massachusetts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother&#8217;s hands frail and worked. Her crepey paper fingers and running rivers of lines pass along the hilly blue mounds of veins. Many cultures stand proud of ages proof as it displays wisdom, strength\u2014a life lived. Honored one should be of the achievement\u2014living. What do they know? I watch as these hands perform tasks, [&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":[6697,10268,3692,41,2927,2191,5489,10269,1725,3456,3399,2468,275,37,10270],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cultures","tag-dianne-braley","tag-farmhands","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hands","tag-life","tag-lines","tag-mounds","tag-newspaper","tag-paper","tag-strength","tag-veins","tag-wind","tag-words","tag-wsdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","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=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}