{"id":5183,"date":"2022-07-21T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2022-07-21T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:08:43","slug":"preparing-for-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/07\/21\/preparing-for-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing For Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do we have to visit them?\u201d the eight-year-old asked. \u201cGrandma is weird and&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandpa is mean,\u201d added her older brother.<\/p>\n<p>Elsa observed the linear perfection of farmland below, largely ignoring her children.<\/p>\n<p>At their age, she rode a tractor alongside her grandfather. They made rows into which other tractors dropped seed potatoes and covered them with soil.<\/p>\n<p>By summer, when Elsa returned from the city, those fields were lush green having absorbed spring rainfalls.<\/p>\n<p>As the plane prepared for landing, she knew her children would experience a different summer vacation. <\/p>\n<p>The farm was no longer a property her family owned.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction regardless of the season, although she prefers spring. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do we have to visit them?\u201d the eight-year-old asked. \u201cGrandma is weird and&#8230;\u201d \u201cGrandpa is mean,\u201d added her older brother. Elsa observed the linear perfection of farmland below, largely ignoring her children. At their age, she rode a tractor alongside her grandfather. They made rows into which other tractors dropped seed potatoes and covered them [&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":[549,113,1564,614,535,2574,1476,5572,3265,41,3224,7891,3586,1817,7224,11157,9885,11155,4123,1148,700,11156,2894,3690],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-brother","tag-children","tag-city","tag-family","tag-farm","tag-farmland","tag-grandfather","tag-grandma","tag-grandpa","tag-guest-contributor","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-landing","tag-perfection","tag-plane","tag-property","tag-rainfalls","tag-rows","tag-seed-potatoes","tag-soil","tag-spring","tag-summer","tag-summer-vacation","tag-tractor","tag-tractors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","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=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5185,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}