{"id":4959,"date":"2022-02-10T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2022-02-10T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T02:31:08","slug":"not-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/02\/10\/not-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sam\u2019s touched up face, slicked brown hair and embalmed body, reminded me that he really was gone.<\/p>\n<p>I sat in the front row as family and friends approached, the same words spoken repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so sorry for your loss, Janny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room filled with flowers, from bleeding hearts to white lilies gave an aroma of a florist rather than a wake.<\/p>\n<p>The priest began to speak, and the room quieted, except for my weeping.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer took my husband too early. He\u2019ll never see his daughter graduate college.<\/p>\n<p>Now I must break the news of my Parkinson\u2019s disease. But not today. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam\u2019s touched up face, slicked brown hair and embalmed body, reminded me that he really was gone. I sat in the front row as family and friends approached, the same words spoken repeatedly. \u201cWe\u2019re so sorry for your loss, Janny.\u201d The room filled with flowers, from bleeding hearts to white lilies gave an aroma of [&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":[6593,10769,1677,1191,4605,1352,2838,614,4066,2963,116,41,1291,1285,9856,5521,3957,5674,2324,8934,4754,37],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aroma","tag-bleeding-hearts","tag-body","tag-cancer","tag-college","tag-daughter","tag-face","tag-family","tag-florist","tag-flowers","tag-friends","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hair","tag-husband","tag-lilies","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-news","tag-parkinsons-disease","tag-priest","tag-today","tag-wake","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}