{"id":4983,"date":"2022-03-04T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T00:55:00","slug":"best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/03\/04\/best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Candy crawled behind the battered settee, where nobody could find her, and held her knees tight to her chest. Sleepy raindrops smashed at the window, echoing like someone rapping at the door. Someone who cared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRain will be my best friend now,\u201d Candy resolved.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t need anyone else. People grumbled she had the shape of a baby elephant; people rolled their eyes and tsked tongues like she took too much space in their lives. Even her darling Beckie said she looked ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>She turned to the dotted window. \u201cYou don\u2019t think so, do you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It tapped a little harder.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Malvina Perova<\/p>\n<p>Malvina is a warrior writer, creator and illustrator from Ukraine, the amazon from https:\/\/goamazons.tumblr.com\/ and an artist at https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goamazonsart\/ <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candy crawled behind the battered settee, where nobody could find her, and held her knees tight to her chest. Sleepy raindrops smashed at the window, echoing like someone rapping at the door. Someone who cared. \u201cRain will be my best friend now,\u201d Candy resolved. She didn\u2019t need anyone else. People grumbled she had the shape [&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":[2733,3258,3837,2805,41,4524,3891,10809,1244,1414,3451,10810,25,4740,1841],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-best-friend","tag-chest","tag-darling","tag-door","tag-guest-contributor","tag-knees","tag-lives","tag-malvina-perova","tag-people","tag-rain","tag-raindrops","tag-settee","tag-space","tag-tongues","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","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=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}