{"id":6166,"date":"2024-08-19T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T17:50:52","slug":"why-would-she-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/08\/19\/why-would-she-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Would She Leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When Mother abandoned our family, I was ten and I was bereft.  Why would she leave?  Dad said Mother didn\u2019t love me, like he did.  But, Dad\u2019s love was accompanied by belittlement and backhanded smacks.  When Dad died in that crash, six years later, relief mixed with my self-pity.  <\/p>\n<p>I reunited with my boy at the funeral.  He stood dumbfounded while I rushed to describe not feeling safe, fearing he\u2019d turn \u201cnasty\u201d (like Rick), watching from afar, and all my regrets.  I left when he started to look like Rick.  I returned only when convinced he wasn\u2019t becoming his father.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Bob Gielow<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mother abandoned our family, I was ten and I was bereft. Why would she leave? Dad said Mother didn\u2019t love me, like he did. But, Dad\u2019s love was accompanied by belittlement and backhanded smacks. When Dad died in that crash, six years later, relief mixed with my self-pity. I reunited with my boy at [&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":[12838,12837,250,4358,1024,614,550,41,73,2773,6602,6692,12839],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-belittlement","tag-bob-gielow","tag-boy","tag-crash","tag-dad","tag-family","tag-funeral","tag-guest-contributor","tag-mother","tag-regrets","tag-relief","tag-self-pity","tag-smacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","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=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}