{"id":5485,"date":"2023-02-22T23:41:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2023-02-22T23:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:41:40","slug":"grams-highest-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/02\/22\/grams-highest-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Gram\u2019s Highest Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I hadn\u2019t seen Gram at her normal function of serving since those days when I often joined her for her lemon pie. Not because she made it best, but because she needed me to receive it. Her God-given role of serving was dismissed when Gramps passed the nicer way; \u2018Goodbye,\u201d he\u2019d whispered, then departed.<\/p>\n<p>Time to let her go, service to others fulfilled. Her release not comforted with him at her side. She\u2019d served her mission the best she could.<\/p>\n<p>Mother phoned this morning. I heard the message in the ring. \u201cShe\u2019s gone. It\u2019s all done, but not all said.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetspiel.name\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Poet SPIEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Established communicator of the arts, 81-year-old internationally published queer author\/artist, storyteller, The Poet Spiel, writes of social conflict, satire noir, and personal hurdles.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn\u2019t seen Gram at her normal function of serving since those days when I often joined her for her lemon pie. Not because she made it best, but because she needed me to receive it. Her God-given role of serving was dismissed when Gramps passed the nicer way; \u2018Goodbye,\u201d he\u2019d whispered, then departed. Time [&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":[11715,108,11713,11324,41,11714,11717,2491,11718,8026,11716,7082,11636,1109],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-function","tag-god","tag-gram","tag-gramps","tag-guest-contributor","tag-highest-calling","tag-lemon-pie","tag-mission","tag-release","tag-role","tag-serving","tag-side","tag-the-poet-spiel","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","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=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}