{"id":6072,"date":"2024-05-22T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:42:29","slug":"shes-already-made-up-her-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/05\/22\/shes-already-made-up-her-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s Already Made Up Her Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She&#8217;s already made up her mind.<\/p>\n<p>Howard doesn&#8217;t see it. He tries bargaining, apologizing (without ever saying the words I&#8217;m sorry), pleading. When that fails, out come the threats, the fits of anger, the hints at suicide. He thinks about hitting her, because it&#8217;s just so unfair, but he throws his phone agains the wall instead. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worse that she doesn&#8217;t get angry at his anger. She&#8217;s quiet. Resolute. <\/p>\n<p>He tries convincing her he&#8217;ll be better. But his apologies are just excuses. He still refuses to say he&#8217;s sorry, wouldn&#8217;t matter if he did.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s already made up her mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s already made up her mind. Howard doesn&#8217;t see it. He tries bargaining, apologizing (without ever saying the words I&#8217;m sorry), pleading. When that fails, out come the threats, the fits of anger, the hints at suicide. He thinks about hitting her, because it&#8217;s just so unfair, but he throws his phone agains the wall [&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":[1616,12693,12690,6081,12692,11161,2922,3312,12691,3362,564,2584,138],"class_list":["post-6072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-anger","tag-apologies","tag-bargaining","tag-excuses","tag-fits-of-anger","tag-hints","tag-mind","tag-phone","tag-pleading","tag-sorry","tag-suicide","tag-threats","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072","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=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}