{"id":5671,"date":"2023-06-20T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2023-06-21T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:38:22","slug":"turnaround-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/06\/20\/turnaround-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnaround Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Midway through the exam my lead broke. What to do? <\/p>\n<p>The boy across the aisle noticed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI brought extras. Take one,\u201d he coaxed, extending an arm towards me.<\/p>\n<p>Why would he offer to help me? I, the lowest achiever of the class; the one all classmates avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Reluctantly I accepted his pencil, resuming my guesses to multiple choice questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood luck,\u201d the same boy whispered, bending towards me.<\/p>\n<p>I watched him rush to the front of the room to be the first to hand in his exam. He, the smartest student of the class. <\/p>\n<p>The one who gave me hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs <\/p>\n<p>Krystyna writes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction regardless of the season or location she finds herself in.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midway through the exam my lead broke. What to do? The boy across the aisle noticed. \u201cI brought extras. Take one,\u201d he coaxed, extending an arm towards me. Why would he offer to help me? I, the lowest achiever of the class; the one all classmates avoided. Reluctantly I accepted his pencil, resuming my guesses [&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":[12014,5553,2135,250,5292,2867,3325,8551,12013,41,2506,3224,3976,12012,2079],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-achiever","tag-aisle","tag-arm","tag-boy","tag-class","tag-classmates","tag-day","tag-exam","tag-extras","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hope","tag-krystyna-fedosejevs","tag-lead","tag-midway","tag-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671","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=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5671\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}