{"id":4747,"date":"2021-09-03T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2021-09-03T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T01:00:16","slug":"everything-will-be-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/09\/03\/everything-will-be-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Will Be Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She exclaims into the camera with twice as much enthusiasm. Smiling at herself, she admires her smoky eyeliner, sleek black cat frames, and her hair\u2019s feathered highlights, with its slight curl held in place with a butterfly barrette. Hard to believe she\u2019s afraid of losing her upper hand\u2014 her grip that keeps the focus on her. Even though, she knows she has run out of excuses to stay home. She&#8217;s just worried sick about everyone. So, she must make do with sharp sound bites, while her inner voice bounces like a loose tin can, tumbling down another dark side street.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor M.J. Iuppa<\/p>\n<p>M.J.\u2019s 100-word stories have appeared most recently in 100 Word Story, Eunoia Review, Milk Candy Review, Otoliths, PIF Magazine, The Drabble Review, The Dribble Drabble Review, A Story in 100 Words, and others. 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>She exclaims into the camera with twice as much enthusiasm. Smiling at herself, she admires her smoky eyeliner, sleek black cat frames, and her hair\u2019s feathered highlights, with its slight curl held in place with a butterfly barrette. Hard to believe she\u2019s afraid of losing her upper hand\u2014 her grip that keeps the focus on [&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":[10399,10396,9034,10398,7801,3921,6081,10395,3919,3777,4058,41,1291,10397,134,10402,7539,10403,10401,8394,10400],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-barrette","tag-black-cat","tag-camera","tag-curl","tag-enthusiasm","tag-everything","tag-excuses","tag-eyeliner","tag-focus","tag-frames","tag-grip","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-highlights","tag-home","tag-inner-voice","tag-m-j-iuppa","tag-side-street","tag-sound-bites","tag-tin-can","tag-upper-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","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=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4748,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}