{"id":4846,"date":"2021-11-10T18:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2021-11-10T18:33:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T01:33:34","slug":"waiting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/11\/10\/waiting-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The mud on my face sticks to me from the heat of the sun, and I\u2019m cramped in a hole waiting.<\/p>\n<p>The sound of ammunition and men screaming is deafening. I reach in my pocket and take out the picture of my wife. She\u2019s so beautiful. I close my eyes and envision myself stroking her long black hair and kissing her luscious lips. I miss her so much, it aches. I promised I\u2019d make it back, but I know that could be a lie. No one knows what will happen in this damn war.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I sit and wait.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mud on my face sticks to me from the heat of the sun, and I\u2019m cramped in a hole waiting. The sound of ammunition and men screaming is deafening. I reach in my pocket and take out the picture of my wife. She\u2019s so beautiful. I close my eyes and envision myself stroking 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":[10551,2838,1291,1268,181,707,3705,5521,7150,1204,9572,4760,748,2124,2914,1531,88,153],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-ammunition","tag-face","tag-hair","tag-heat","tag-hole","tag-lie","tag-lips","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-men","tag-mud","tag-no-one","tag-picture","tag-pocket","tag-screams","tag-sound","tag-sun","tag-war","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","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=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4847,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}