{"id":5356,"date":"2022-11-29T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T01:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:36:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T01:36:44","slug":"scars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/11\/29\/scars\/","title":{"rendered":"Scars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I weave between trees, around my bike and up the stairs. The screen door slams in my wake. Through the kitchen, I run for my room. Behind me, my brother stretches out his Gumby-hand. He\u2019s within inches of touching my skin. Inside, a tick is dying to suck my blood. <\/p>\n<p>Years later, I\u2019ll run on the beach. You\u2019ll chase me with something in your hand. Perhaps a periwinkle plucked from a nearby dune. You\u2019ll hand it to me and smile. Say you love me. I\u2019ll take it, hold the flower to my nose, and wonder what it wants from me.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Sally Simon<\/p>\n<p>Sally (ze\/hir) lives in NY. When not writing, ze travels and stabs people with hir epee. Read more at www.sallysimonwriter.com.<\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I weave between trees, around my bike and up the stairs. The screen door slams in my wake. Through the kitchen, I run for my room. Behind me, my brother stretches out his Gumby-hand. He\u2019s within inches of touching my skin. Inside, a tick is dying to suck my blood. Years later, I\u2019ll run on [&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":[2149,4512,281,549,11487,4155,41,11484,1097,600,2211,11486,11483,1450,7911,2014,1821,3610,11485,675,4754],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beach","tag-bike","tag-blood","tag-brother","tag-dune","tag-flower","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gumby","tag-kitchen","tag-love","tag-nose","tag-periwinkle","tag-sally-simon","tag-scars","tag-screen-door","tag-skin","tag-smile","tag-stairs","tag-tick","tag-trees","tag-wake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","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=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}