{"id":5997,"date":"2024-03-18T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T05:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2024-03-19T22:18:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:18:28","slug":"the-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/03\/18\/the-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When the bombs exploded, I veered the plane sideways. <\/p>\n<p>My men yelled we should vacate, but I had to make the destination point. <\/p>\n<p>As the men jumped one by one until I was the only one left, shots hit the fuel tank, and I had no choice. <\/p>\n<p>I said a prayer, left my station and vaulted out into the sky. <\/p>\n<p>In the distance, I heard an explosion and flames filled the air. <\/p>\n<p>I heaved a sigh of relief when I landed safely on solid ground, until footsteps approached, and guns were aimed at my chest. <\/p>\n<p>I landed on enemy territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the bombs exploded, I veered the plane sideways. My men yelled we should vacate, but I had to make the destination point. As the men jumped one by one until I was the only one left, shots hit the fuel tank, and I had no choice. I said a prayer, left my station 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":[4652,5970,3258,2391,12563,6206,12566,1266,5832,1861,12564,41,2398,5521,1817,5021,7611,11227,1736,12565,3297],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-bombs","tag-chest","tag-choice","tag-destination-point","tag-distance","tag-enemy-territory","tag-explosion","tag-flames","tag-footsteps","tag-fuel-tank","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guns","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-plane","tag-prayer","tag-shots","tag-sigh-of-relief","tag-sky","tag-solid-ground","tag-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","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=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}