{"id":5597,"date":"2023-05-03T18:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T01:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2023-05-03T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T01:19:19","slug":"loss-of-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/05\/03\/loss-of-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss Of Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I shouldn\u2019t have fallen for the marketing (\u201cYou\u2019re never alone with a clone!\u201d), but I did. I saved up, sent my DNA sample to PeopleMakers, and a week later there was a knock on the door. He was perfect: sympathetic, interested in all my hobbies, and with all my tastes in clothes and women and jokes.<\/p>\n<p>When I couldn\u2019t afford to renew the subscription, though, he walked out of my life just as easily and quietly as he\u2019d arrived, leaving me alone and even more achingly aware of what I didn\u2019t have. Where am I now when I need me?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Alastair Millar<\/p>\n<p>Alastair is an archaeologist by training, a translator by trade, and a nerd by nature. His published flash and micro fiction can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/\/alastairmillar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and he lurks on Twitter @skriptorium.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shouldn\u2019t have fallen for the marketing (\u201cYou\u2019re never alone with a clone!\u201d), but I did. I saved up, sent my DNA sample to PeopleMakers, and a week later there was a knock on the door. He was perfect: sympathetic, interested in all my hobbies, and with all my tastes in clothes and women and [&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":[10779,8140,1328,112,41,11681,2068,11886,2191,5664,1388,10392,2982,9889,2522],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alastair-millar","tag-clone","tag-clothes","tag-dna","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hobbies","tag-jokes","tag-knock-on-the-door","tag-life","tag-loss","tag-marketing","tag-self","tag-subscription","tag-tastes","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","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=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5598,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}