{"id":5188,"date":"2022-07-26T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2022-07-26T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:06:50","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/07\/26\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George staggered into the hallway searching for Cecilia. He didn\u2019t have much time and he needed her to make haste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere you are. I signed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She sipped her tepid coffee. \u201cOh, George, can\u2019t I even take a short break?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust take it. You don\u2019t need to read it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know, I\u2019m your attorney. I read it already. Are you sure about this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George sighed and put the paper in front of her, pushing aside the glazed donut.<\/p>\n<p>It was done.<\/p>\n<p>His estate would go to Myra Ariello, the compassionate nurse who cared for him when no one else would.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/p>\n<p>Lisa has been writing since 2010 and has had many micro-flash fiction stories published. In 2018 her book Shorts for the Short Story Enthusiasts, was published and The Importance of Being Short, in 2019. Her most recent book In A Flash, was published in the spring of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>She currently resides on Long Island, New York with her husband Richard and dogs Lucy and Breanna.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George staggered into the hallway searching for Cecilia. He didn\u2019t have much time and he needed her to make haste. \u201cThere you are. I signed it.\u201d She sipped her tepid coffee. \u201cOh, George, can\u2019t I even take a short break?\u201d \u201cJust take it. You don\u2019t need to read it.\u201d \u201cI know, I\u2019m your attorney. I [&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":[2060,6524,2439,5612,7228,1659,41,7763,11160,5521,6035,3456,1109],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-attorney","tag-break","tag-coffee","tag-compassion","tag-donut","tag-estate","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hallway","tag-haste","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-nurse","tag-paper","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","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=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}