{"id":5195,"date":"2022-08-01T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:39:35","slug":"a-boy-in-the-torn-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/08\/01\/a-boy-in-the-torn-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boy In The Torn Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The horror of an early morning bombardment urged the boy in the torn jacket to seek his mom. Out of debris and rubble, he most needed the dearest soul to hug him tightly.<\/p>\n<p>I stood and watched the scene in despair. Out of nowhere, a social worker appeared, took Ian\u2019s hand, and asked his name. I tapped the man on the shoulder and offered to adopt the boy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you sure you\u2019d cope?\u201d the man reacted in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>I have never regretted my choice. Ian has substituted our once-unborn-child, \u2018the diamond in the sky,\u2019 as we call him with Liz.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/what-its-like-to-work-as-a-freelance-writer-in-ukraine-right-now\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taras Bereza<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taras is a professional lexicographer at &#8216;Apriori Publishers&#8217; with 10 published dictionaries. He has worked as a contributing freelance writer since 2006 and wrote for Bacopa Literary Review and Freedom With Writing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horror of an early morning bombardment urged the boy in the torn jacket to seek his mom. Out of debris and rubble, he most needed the dearest soul to hug him tightly. I stood and watched the scene in despair. Out of nowhere, a social worker appeared, took Ian\u2019s hand, and asked his name. [&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":[8111,250,2870,1270,762,4150,6675,11168,41,4944,6663,215,1023,5567,5023,5481,8464,2136,1736,2709,1004,11167],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bombardment","tag-boy","tag-child","tag-debris","tag-despair","tag-diamond","tag-disbelief","tag-early-morning","tag-guest-contributor","tag-horror","tag-jacket","tag-man","tag-mom","tag-name","tag-nowhere","tag-rubble","tag-scene","tag-shoulder","tag-sky","tag-social-worker","tag-soul","tag-taras-bereza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}