{"id":5369,"date":"2022-12-08T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2022-12-08T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T04:06:16","slug":"the-secret-to-staying-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/12\/08\/the-secret-to-staying-human\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret To Staying Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mom digs her feet under the wet sand of the Atlantic. I stand next to her, wondering if the ocean will remember her and melt her legs back together.<\/p>\n<p>Each wave climbs higher up our pale legs. Our feet sink deeper and deeper. The surge threatens to topple me, to suck me out to sea. Tears stream down my cheeks. <\/p>\n<p>Mom grabs me. \u201cThis was a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I cling to her as she rushes toward our towels. <\/p>\n<p>She dries her feet. Inspects each toe. Sighs in relief.<\/p>\n<p>My toes tingle, translucent skin spread between them. The ocean\u2019s song calls me. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Sally Simon <\/p>\n<p>Sally (ze\/hir) lives in NY. When not writing, ze\u2019s travels and stabs people with hir epee. Read more at www.sallysimonwriter.com. <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom digs her feet under the wet sand of the Atlantic. I stand next to her, wondering if the ocean will remember her and melt her legs back together. Each wave climbs higher up our pale legs. Our feet sink deeper and deeper. The surge threatens to topple me, to suck me out to sea. [&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":[8928,2093,2087,41,2717,2837,2742,1023,282,6602,11483,1289,519,3438,2014,1084,11509,1323,3201,3027,11508],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-atlantic","tag-cheeks","tag-feet","tag-guest-contributor","tag-human","tag-legs","tag-mistake","tag-mom","tag-ocean","tag-relief","tag-sally-simon","tag-sea","tag-secret","tag-sigh","tag-skin","tag-song","tag-surge","tag-tears","tag-toe","tag-wave","tag-wet-sand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","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=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5370,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}