{"id":6019,"date":"2024-04-08T20:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T03:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2024-04-09T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T03:04:17","slug":"after-summer-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/04\/08\/after-summer-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"After Summer Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We hugged our children when they stepped off the bus, but they looked at us with vacant eyes, and when they spoke, the music was missing. They didn\u2019t know who we were, or what they were doing on this street where they\u2019d grown up. We brought out the brownies they loved, but they said no, our precious fifth graders, and stacked their suitcases up like a funeral pyre, as if to set fire to their childhood. The bus driver stood on the corner, a new god, calling them back to their new life, while we were left to wave goodbye. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Linda Lowe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hugged our children when they stepped off the bus, but they looked at us with vacant eyes, and when they spoke, the music was missing. They didn\u2019t know who we were, or what they were doing on this street where they\u2019d grown up. We brought out the brownies they loved, but they said no, [&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":[10553,1974,1970,4318,113,3069,2720,12594,781,12595,108,2230,41,2191,7920,963,1971,5980,12593],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-brownies","tag-bus","tag-bus-driver","tag-childhood","tag-children","tag-corner","tag-eyes","tag-fifth-graders","tag-fire","tag-funeral-pyre","tag-god","tag-goodbye","tag-guest-contributor","tag-life","tag-linda-lowe","tag-music","tag-street","tag-suitcases","tag-summer-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","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=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6020,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions\/6020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}