{"id":5458,"date":"2023-02-09T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2023-02-10T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T17:43:15","slug":"the-missed-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/02\/09\/the-missed-date\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missed Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I first saw you in the waiting room. I had an appointment with the oncologist. I was waiting.  You waited too, month after month, for the trial results. You often came alone. You often sat alone in a corner, fiddling with the ring finger. The absence of a ring created a note of discord. It took me six months to gather courage to ask your name, your hobbies, your favourite colour, flower, song, season. For a date finally. You said yes. I wore blue and ordered one hundred and one tulips for the day. The day I attended your funeral.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marziar57167805?lang=ar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marzia Rahman<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Marzia is a Bangladeshi fiction writer and translator. Her writings have appeared in several print and online journals. Her novella-in-flash If Dreams had wings and Houses were built on clouds was longlisted in the Bath Novella in Flash Award Competition in 2022. She is currently working on a novella.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw you in the waiting room. I had an appointment with the oncologist. I was waiting. You waited too, month after month, for the trial results. You often came alone. You often sat alone in a corner, fiddling with the ring finger. The absence of a ring created a note of discord. 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":[3799,4715,3069,299,11680,11682,4155,550,41,11681,11677,5567,11678,6372,5626,11679,4065,1084,1206,783,1669],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-absence","tag-appointment","tag-corner","tag-date","tag-discord","tag-favorite-color","tag-flower","tag-funeral","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hobbies","tag-marzia-rahman","tag-name","tag-oncologist","tag-results","tag-ring","tag-ring-finger","tag-season","tag-song","tag-trial","tag-tulips","tag-waiting-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5459,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/5459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}