{"id":6051,"date":"2024-05-02T21:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6051"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:51:59","slug":"alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/05\/02\/alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Guns roared and bullets skyrocketed past my head. I ducked and took deep breaths. The man next to me bled out. There wasn\u2019t anything I could do. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetreat,\u201d the lieutenant yelled.<\/p>\n<p>Retreat where, I wondered? I reloaded my weapon and aimed at anything coming toward me. <\/p>\n<p>It was chaotic. Men screaming, bodies strewn everywhere. If I got out alive it would be a miracle. <\/p>\n<p>Something hit me from behind. I looked and my stomach bled deep red. I crumpled to the ground, then everything went black.<\/p>\n<p>When I awakened, I was on a stretcher in a helicopter. <\/p>\n<p>I made it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns roared and bullets skyrocketed past my head. I ducked and took deep breaths. The man next to me bled out. There wasn\u2019t anything I could do. \u201cRetreat,\u201d the lieutenant yelled. Retreat where, I wondered? I reloaded my weapon and aimed at anything coming toward me. It was chaotic. Men screaming, bodies strewn everywhere. If [&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":[2770,6801,6926,6010,3555,41,2398,3766,1086,199,5521,215,1104,3706,10703,1425],"class_list":["post-6051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-black","tag-bodies","tag-bullets","tag-deep-breaths","tag-ground","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guns","tag-head","tag-helicopter","tag-lieutenant","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-man","tag-miracle","tag-stomach","tag-stretcher","tag-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051","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=6051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}