{"id":5210,"date":"2022-08-11T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2022-08-11T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T02:11:15","slug":"some-games-are-not-for-grown-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/08\/11\/some-games-are-not-for-grown-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Games Are Not For Grown-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten, nine, eight jumps to go. Nick meets my gaze. Seven, six, five, four.<\/p>\n

Say it, Nick. Say it. Three.<\/p>\n

\u201cIrene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grown-ups shouldn\u2019t play alphabet games.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsa, come back. Letter I is so tricky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grown-ups shouldn\u2019t jump rope. It\u2019s not good on the heartstrings.<\/p>\n

I sat under a Jacaranda and tore the Valentine\u2019s Day card. Nick and Isa 4 ever 2 gether littered my lap.<\/p>\n

Grow up.<\/p>\n

I dug into my hand bag, pulled out my diary and littered again. My lap brimming with lavender scented paper.<\/p>\n

Grown-ups shouldn\u2019t keep diaries. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m Ana\u00efs Nin for goodness sake! <\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Isabelle B.L <\/p>\n

Isabelle is a teacher based in France. She has published a novel inspired by the life of a New Caledonian feminist and politician. Her work can be found in the Best Microfiction 2022 anthology, Visual Verse, Free Flash Fiction and elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten, nine, eight jumps to go. Nick meets my gaze. Seven, six, five, four. Say it, Nick. Say it. Three. \u201cIrene.\u201d Grown-ups shouldn\u2019t play alphabet games. \u201cIsa, come back. Letter I is so tricky.\u201d Grown-ups shouldn\u2019t jump rope. It\u2019s not good on the heartstrings. I sat under a Jacaranda and tore the Valentine\u2019s Day card. […]<\/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":[11205,11210,3998,11209,404,3234,3028,11211,11203,41,11208,11206,10148,11207,10778,11204,2835,3456,3993],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alaphabet","tag-anais-nin","tag-card","tag-diaries","tag-diary","tag-games","tag-gaze","tag-goodness-sake","tag-grown-ups","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hand-bag","tag-heartstrings","tag-isabelle-b-l","tag-jacaranda","tag-jump-rope","tag-jumps","tag-lap","tag-paper","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","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=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}