{"id":4912,"date":"2022-01-06T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:02:42","slug":"before-the-words-there-were-echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/01\/06\/before-the-words-there-were-echoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Before The Words, There Were Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There was silence in the universe. Words were nowhere to be found, as if all existence had stopped and all that was left was a void of utter disbelief and confusion. How can there be something, and yet it means nothing?<\/p>\n<p>She had many words inside her, words that boiled into nothingness and brought about the vapor of insignificance. She remembered \u201cin the beginning was the Word,\u201d but instead of feeling any sense of security, she lost heart.<\/p>\n<p>In that loss, she grasped the emptiness of whispers and asked the vast expanse:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is needed to be compassionate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA soul.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Aida Bode<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was silence in the universe. Words were nowhere to be found, as if all existence had stopped and all that was left was a void of utter disbelief and confusion. How can there be something, and yet it means nothing? She had many words inside her, words that boiled into nothingness and brought about [&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":[10689,4072,6675,7809,327,1620,10691,41,749,2440,5664,2907,4242,5023,596,6622,1838,465,10690,1210,37],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aida-bode","tag-confusion","tag-disbelief","tag-echoes","tag-emptiness","tag-existence","tag-expanse","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-insignificance","tag-loss","tag-nothing","tag-nothingness","tag-nowhere","tag-security","tag-sense","tag-silence","tag-universe","tag-vapor","tag-whispers","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","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=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}