{"id":5001,"date":"2022-03-17T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2022-03-18T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:22:28","slug":"gravity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/03\/17\/gravity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You are not bound by gravity, my son.<\/p>\n<p>Midnight, finger tapping my shoulder. <\/p>\n<p>Fortress under my blankets. Helpless tears slip down his cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hate me, Momma,\u201d he whispers, voice cracking. What can I say to that?<\/p>\n<p>You are not bound by gravity, my son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy am I so weird?\u201d His question is broken, tentative. Saying it aloud makes it more real than it was before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people are just born different, baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you different, Momma?\u201d What an innocent question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d I say, voice sticking. So I repeat myself. \u201cYes, I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But we are not bound by gravity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Tirzah Blazis<\/p>\n<p>Tirzah is a high school senior who takes dual enrollment classes at Pikes Peak Community College. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are not bound by gravity, my son. Midnight, finger tapping my shoulder. Fortress under my blankets. Helpless tears slip down his cheeks. \u201cThey hate me, Momma,\u201d he whispers, voice cracking. What can I say to that? You are not bound by gravity, my son. \u201cWhy am I so weird?\u201d His question is broken, tentative. [&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":[758,2093,10855,5463,41,8290,3488,1730,1323,10854,2362],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-baby","tag-cheeks","tag-fortress","tag-gravity","tag-guest-contributor","tag-momma","tag-question","tag-son","tag-tears","tag-tirzah-blazis","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","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=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}