{"id":4869,"date":"2021-11-29T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:46:13","slug":"the-lit-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/11\/29\/the-lit-bedroom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lit Bedroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As nightfall descended, a feathery latecomer gathered crumbs from Vi\u2019s patio. Lights in a nearby house turned off, except for one.<\/p>\n<p>It shone from a second story. An elderly woman was seen looking out the window.<\/p>\n<p>When Vi met the house owner at their communal mailbox, she remarked on the upstairs light being left on at night and asked how long the guest would be visiting.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbor looked perplexed. She said it was her mother\u2019s room, until her death a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>Vi wondered if her imagination played tricks. Since their conversation, that bedroom light no longer lit up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, primarily residing in Edmonton, Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As nightfall descended, a feathery latecomer gathered crumbs from Vi\u2019s patio. Lights in a nearby house turned off, except for one. It shone from a second story. An elderly woman was seen looking out the window. When Vi met the house owner at their communal mailbox, she remarked on the upstairs light being left 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":[1359,10591,3073,295,4428,41,2103,10589,1128,3224,10587,3030,1007,3426,2665,5838,4645,10588,10590,1841],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bedroom","tag-bedroom-light","tag-crumbs","tag-death","tag-guest","tag-guest-contributor","tag-house","tag-house-owner","tag-imagination","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-latecomer","tag-lights","tag-mailbox","tag-neighbor","tag-night","tag-nightfall","tag-patio","tag-second-story","tag-tricks","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}