{"id":5876,"date":"2023-12-18T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2023-12-18T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T00:32:06","slug":"a-frank-conversation-following-an-epistolary-courtship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/12\/18\/a-frank-conversation-following-an-epistolary-courtship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Frank Conversation Following An Epistolary Courtship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How will you tell people we met? she asks. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll say I\u2019m a quantum anthropologist from a parallel reality who built a machine to peer beyond dimensional walls. That I spent years studying myriad earths twitching across infinite frequencies until, one day, I saw you through my viewfinder. Yes, I knew crossing the trans-dimensional bridge would buckle my reality\u2019s foundations. I didn\u2019t care. I\u2019ll warn everyone, my love for you doomed a universe.<\/p>\n<p>And you? he asks. <\/p>\n<p>She shifts. Her shackles jingle. The guard clears his throat. The truth. I took first at the International Sasquatch Rodeo. You were runner-up. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Keith J. Powell<\/p>\n<p>Keith is co-founder of Your Impossible Voice. Find more of his writing at www.keithjpowell.com.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will you tell people we met? she asks. I\u2019ll say I\u2019m a quantum anthropologist from a parallel reality who built a machine to peer beyond dimensional walls. That I spent years studying myriad earths twitching across infinite frequencies until, one day, I saw you through my viewfinder. Yes, I knew crossing the trans-dimensional bridge [&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":[1757,200,983,5254,12367,6303,5240,6925,41,12369,12365,600,2759,12366,1244,11817,1774,1201,4882,12370,3582,465,12368,4396],"class_list":["post-5876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-anthropologist","tag-bridge","tag-conversation","tag-courtship","tag-earths","tag-foundations","tag-frequencies","tag-guard","tag-guest-contributor","tag-jingle","tag-keith-j-powell","tag-love","tag-machine","tag-parallel-reality","tag-people","tag-quantum","tag-reality","tag-rodeo","tag-runner-up","tag-sasquatch","tag-throat","tag-universe","tag-viewfinder","tag-walls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876","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=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5877,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}