{"id":5169,"date":"2022-07-12T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T20:36:27","slug":"so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/07\/12\/so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"So Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was led into the room without introductions.  With only twelve in my year at primary school, everyone knew everyone.  But I didn\u2019t know myself.  I thought I was an astronaut. <\/p>\n<p>Seeing the other two in my remedial class, I thought, Am I one of these? <\/p>\n<p>They were Sharon Specs and Simple Simon.  So hard accepting that I belonged in a group I\u2019d ridiculed.  Embarrassing being near them.   <\/p>\n<p>Months later, I was the only one needing extra classes.  Then I\u2019d discover I wasn\u2019t really like Sharon and Simon.  They were smarter.    <\/p>\n<p>I had to orbit Earth alone in my daydreams. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Duncan Bourne<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was led into the room without introductions. With only twelve in my year at primary school, everyone knew everyone. But I didn\u2019t know myself. I thought I was an astronaut. Seeing the other two in my remedial class, I thought, Am I one of these? They were Sharon Specs and Simple Simon. So hard [&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":[23,4401,7931,11130,269,41,11131,1575,11132],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-astronaut","tag-classes","tag-daydreams","tag-duncan-bourne","tag-earth","tag-guest-contributor","tag-introductions","tag-primary-school","tag-remedial-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","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=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}