{"id":5489,"date":"2023-02-27T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2023-03-01T01:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T08:14:04","slug":"first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/02\/27\/first-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"First Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At first glance it appears to be a normal home with a wraparound porch and swing.<\/p>\n<p>The windows are open, and the curtains blow in the warm breeze. Still, I can\u2019t seem to move. Now, I must wonder why I insisted on this meeting. My life is fine. I have a wife and two boys. I don\u2019t need to meet my mother.<\/p>\n<p>She abandoned me, yet I need answers. Even as an adult, I feel as if I\u2019m a child not understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I exit the car and walk to the front door, take a deep breath, and ring the doorbell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance it appears to be a normal home with a wraparound porch and swing. The windows are open, and the curtains blow in the warm breeze. Still, I can\u2019t seem to move. Now, I must wonder why I insisted on this meeting. My life is fine. I have a wife and two boys. [&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":[5187,1877,1355,3620,1814,2870,5390,5606,3665,3292,2686,41,134,2191,5521,4099,73,3280,5623,153],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-adult","tag-answers","tag-boys","tag-breeze","tag-car","tag-child","tag-curtains","tag-deep-breath","tag-doorbell","tag-front-door","tag-glance","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-life","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-meeting","tag-mother","tag-porch","tag-swing","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","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=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}