{"id":5887,"date":"2023-12-27T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2023-12-26T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T05:18:24","slug":"relativists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/12\/27\/relativists\/","title":{"rendered":"Relativists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A twin, jealous of her sister\u2019s looks, sends her into outer space.<\/p>\n<p>-The joke\u2019s on you, says their mother. She will return younger than you. And, she\u2019ll look even better.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t she know time is an illusion? Then again, she believes the sun rises and sets.<\/p>\n<p>-She knows an illusion when she sees it, says the mother. She\u2019s always been the smart one. <\/p>\n<p>The mother glances down at her watch. It runs more slowly when in motion, treating time like taffy: the greater the pull, the more it stretches.<\/p>\n<p>-Gravity, she seethes.<\/p>\n<p>You always liked her better, says the twin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Cheryl Snell<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl&#8217;s recent fiction has appeared in Switch, Does It Have Pockets? Gone Lawn, Necessary Fiction, Pure Slush, and elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A twin, jealous of her sister\u2019s looks, sends her into outer space. -The joke\u2019s on you, says their mother. She will return younger than you. And, she\u2019ll look even better. Doesn\u2019t she know time is an illusion? Then again, she believes the sun rises and sets. -She knows an illusion when she sees it, says [&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":[11031,5463,41,1775,212,4609,73,6163,285,12384,548,1531,12385,1109,4067,2116],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cheryl-snell","tag-gravity","tag-guest-contributor","tag-illusion","tag-joke","tag-looks","tag-mother","tag-motion","tag-outer-space","tag-relativists","tag-sister","tag-sun","tag-taffy","tag-time","tag-twin","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","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=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}