{"id":5268,"date":"2022-09-22T18:16:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2022-09-22T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:16:27","slug":"first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/09\/22\/first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"First Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My head rotates like the Earth around the sun, except at excessive speed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to go outside, being afraid of germs and diseases, and wearing a mask does nothing to assure me. I went from going out when necessary to ordering what I need online. My therapist keeps saying I need to take it one day at a time, so today I\u2019m taking my first step.<\/p>\n<p>I place my hand on the front doorknob and breathe. It slowly creaks open.<\/p>\n<p>As I walk onto my front porch, I remember what it\u2019s like to feel the air against my face.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My head rotates like the Earth around the sun, except at excessive speed. It\u2019s difficult to go outside, being afraid of germs and diseases, and wearing a mask does nothing to assure me. I went from going out when necessary to ordering what I need online. My therapist keeps saying I need to take it [&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":[4652,808,4590,269,2838,11330,1933,41,3766,5521,1850,11329,2928,4171,6674,1531,1216],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-disease","tag-doorknob","tag-earth","tag-face","tag-front-porch","tag-germs","tag-guest-contributor","tag-head","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-mask","tag-one-day-at-a-time","tag-outside","tag-speed","tag-step","tag-sun","tag-therapist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","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=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5269,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}