{"id":4955,"date":"2022-02-08T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2022-02-08T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T01:52:07","slug":"the-giver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/02\/08\/the-giver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It started with gummies. Her mother placed a bag inside her lunch box every day. She gave them all away, hoping the other kids would like her.<\/p>\n<p>In high school, she had a crush on a cute boy. She gave him the best seat, and then she couldn\u2019t see.<\/p>\n<p>Away at university, she baked lemon cakes. She gave all the slices to students who studied in the lounge late at night.<\/p>\n<p>One day after work, she paused at a window and stared. People on the sidewalk bustled behind her.<\/p>\n<p>She stepped into the bakery, bought lemon cake, and ate it.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayerapoportdespres.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Faye Rapoport DesPres<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faye is the author of the memoir-in-essays Message From a Blue Jay and the Stray Cat Stories children&#8217;s book series. She lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with gummies. Her mother placed a bag inside her lunch box every day. She gave them all away, hoping the other kids would like her. In high school, she had a crush on a cute boy. She gave him the best seat, and then she couldn\u2019t see. Away at university, she baked lemon [&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":[2654,10768,250,7849,10763,10762,41,10764,91,10766,8630,10765,73,2665,2182,2342,10767,4789,2384,168],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bag","tag-bakery","tag-boy","tag-every-day","tag-faye-rapoport-despres","tag-giver","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gummies","tag-high-school","tag-lemon-cakes","tag-lounge","tag-lunch-box","tag-mother","tag-night","tag-seat","tag-sidewalk","tag-slices","tag-students","tag-university","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","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=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4956,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}