{"id":4701,"date":"2021-07-29T19:55:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T02:55:25","slug":"changeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/07\/29\/changeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Changeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Susan struggled against her mother\u2019s prying hands, desperate to keep her favorite teddy, but mother won at last, tearing it free. The child wilted to the floor. \u201cYou can have it back when you apologize,\u201d said her mother, slamming the door behind her. Susan saw the little man out of the corner of her eye, beckoning from the window, his crown adorned with fresh lily blooms. He was so polite and understanding. Her mother would never know. Susan\u2019s mother returned and found her daughter\u2019s window open, wind scattering lily petals across the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSusan!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere,\u201d replied the child behind her.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Sean Ferrier-Watson<\/p>\n<p>Sean has pieces published or forthcoming in Borderlands, Better Than Starbucks, Forces, and Illumen. His book The Children\u2019s Ghost Story in America was published by McFarland in 2017. Follow him at www.seanferrierwatson.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan struggled against her mother\u2019s prying hands, desperate to keep her favorite teddy, but mother won at last, tearing it free. The child wilted to the floor. \u201cYou can have it back when you apologize,\u201d said her mother, slamming the door behind her. Susan saw the little man out of the corner of her eye, [&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":[6532,10322,2870,3069,1233,3309,41,9853,73,6027,10321,10323,1841],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blooms","tag-changeling","tag-child","tag-corner","tag-crown","tag-floor","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lily","tag-mother","tag-petals","tag-sean-ferrier-watson","tag-teddy","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","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=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}