{"id":5230,"date":"2022-08-26T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T23:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2022-08-26T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T23:49:44","slug":"clinging-to-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/08\/26\/clinging-to-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinging To Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The crew is swept out to sea by the powerful waves. I hear their screams as they are drowning, and it\u2019s haunting. The captain died by a blow to the head and it\u2019s every man for himself. I jump into the deep ocean and grab onto a piece of debris. As I\u2019m floating, I hear distant cries of the men still onboard the ship. They are sinking and clinging to the railing. I\u2019ve known these men for years. I hold on tightly and pray.<\/p>\n<p>In and out of consciousness, my head is weary, and my stomach growls.<\/p>\n<p>Help will come. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew is swept out to sea by the powerful waves. I hear their screams as they are drowning, and it\u2019s haunting. The captain died by a blow to the head and it\u2019s every man for himself. I jump into the deep ocean and grab onto a piece of debris. As I\u2019m floating, I hear [&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":[11254,2000,4047,2488,7262,1270,41,154,2506,5521,215,282,7255,2124,1289,1459,3706,1461],"class_list":["post-5230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blow-to-the-head","tag-captain","tag-consciousness","tag-crew","tag-cries","tag-debris","tag-guest-contributor","tag-haunting","tag-hope","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-man","tag-ocean","tag-railing","tag-screams","tag-sea","tag-ship","tag-stomach","tag-waves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230","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=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}