{"id":4741,"date":"2021-08-31T19:56:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:00:56","slug":"deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/08\/31\/deep-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She lies nestled upon the seabed, in the depths almost beyond the sun; she calls to me, drawing me in ever closer since I first saw her. <\/p>\n<p>Last time I dived, we almost touched fingertips, but I was forced to come up for air, empty-handed, so to speak. <\/p>\n<p>Every time I\u2019ve gotten near to her since\u2014three times now\u2014I\u2019ve woken up flat on my back upon the pier, with Mitch giving me resuscitation and mouth-to-mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I\u2019ll reach her; I\u2019ll dive when the lifeguards change their shift on the harbour wall\u2014Mitch won\u2019t stop me again. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s waiting for me there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soorploom\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Anderson<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Andrew (he\/him) is a writer of fiction from Bathgate, Scotland. His work has previously been published by National Flash Fiction Day Press, Sampson Low Ltd., Selcouth Station Press, The Drabble, Black Hare Press, Eerie River Publishing, Paragraph Planet, Steering 23 Publications, and Blood Song Books.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She lies nestled upon the seabed, in the depths almost beyond the sun; she calls to me, drawing me in ever closer since I first saw her. Last time I dived, we almost touched fingertips, but I was forced to come up for air, empty-handed, so to speak. Every time I\u2019ve gotten near to her [&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":[4652,10384,2776,10383,9267,4592,41,7713,10388,10387,5415,10386,10385,2264,1531,138],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-andrew-anderson","tag-back","tag-deep-dive","tag-depths","tag-fingertips","tag-guest-contributor","tag-harbor","tag-lifeguards","tag-mouth-to-mouth","tag-pier","tag-resuscitation","tag-seabed","tag-shift","tag-sun","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4742,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}