{"id":4876,"date":"2021-12-02T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2021-12-02T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T01:48:00","slug":"soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/12\/02\/soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The soldier\u2019s leg is broken in two places, but he\u2019s courageous and doesn\u2019t scream. As I\u2019m cleaning the wound, he grabs my arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t be fighting again, will I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gently remove his hand. \u201cI\u2019m afraid not. You\u2019ll be heading home. Your mother will be overjoyed to see you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He kisses my hand and looks into my eyes. \u201cAt least in this hell, I got to see a beautiful nurse to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I follow his stare, then lean in and kiss his forehead. \u201cTake care, soldier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sepsis will soon kill him, and he\u2019ll return home in a coffin. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soldier\u2019s leg is broken in two places, but he\u2019s courageous and doesn\u2019t scream. As I\u2019m cleaning the wound, he grabs my arm. \u201cI won\u2019t be fighting again, will I?\u201d I gently remove his hand. \u201cI\u2019m afraid not. You\u2019ll be heading home. Your mother will be overjoyed to see you.\u201d He kisses my hand and [&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":[2135,2306,295,2720,2748,41,2066,332,134,6148,3724,5521,73,6035,3317,10601,2166,5693],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arm","tag-coffin","tag-death","tag-eyes","tag-forehead","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hand","tag-hell","tag-home","tag-kisses","tag-leg","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-mother","tag-nurse","tag-scream","tag-sepsis","tag-soldier","tag-wound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","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=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}