{"id":6202,"date":"2024-09-17T18:55:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2024-09-17T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:55:47","slug":"a-family-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/09\/17\/a-family-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"A Family Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I couldn\u2019t help but keep my hand on my stomach as the baby kicked inside. \u201cJace, you can\u2019t tell Jeffrey the baby is yours. It would destroy him, our marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He took a gulp of water. \u201cHe needs to know. If you don\u2019t tell him, I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed him by the shirt. \u201cPlease, Jace, don\u2019t tell your brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pushed me away; I lost my balance and fell. I hit my head hard and blacked out.<\/p>\n<p>When I awakened, Jeffrey was by my side in the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>I knew from the tears in his eyes the baby was gone. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t help but keep my hand on my stomach as the baby kicked inside. \u201cJace, you can\u2019t tell Jeffrey the baby is yours. It would destroy him, our marriage.\u201d He took a gulp of water. \u201cHe needs to know. If you don\u2019t tell him, I will.\u201d I grabbed him by the shirt. \u201cPlease, Jace, [&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":[758,4042,549,12896,41,6161,2066,3766,292,5521,552,3706,1323,177],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-baby","tag-balance","tag-brother","tag-family-affair","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gulp","tag-hand","tag-head","tag-hospital","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-marriage","tag-stomach","tag-tears","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","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=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}