{"id":6307,"date":"2024-12-18T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T03:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2024-12-18T20:09:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T03:09:23","slug":"coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/12\/18\/coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Coffee? I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Totally, you replied.<\/p>\n<p>When I offered an invitation, you always accepted. You never extended one yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Was this friendship a one-way mirror, a one-way road, a one-note song?<\/p>\n<p>Over several years, I pondered what it signified. If a friendship is only one-sided, is it a friendship at all?<\/p>\n<p>I waited. I didn\u2019t hear from you. Months.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch? I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait, you answered.<\/p>\n<p>More months later.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner?<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow? Your text read.<\/p>\n<p>Your company was always innocuous, comforting in a way. Reliably benign.<\/p>\n<p>I never messaged you again. After nineteen years, that was the last time we spoke. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Justene Musin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee? I asked. Totally, you replied. When I offered an invitation, you always accepted. You never extended one yourself. Was this friendship a one-way mirror, a one-way road, a one-note song? Over several years, I pondered what it signified. If a friendship is only one-sided, is it a friendship at all? I waited. I didn\u2019t [&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":[2439,341,338,2735,41,7303,13070,968,4584,13071,1084],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-coffee","tag-company","tag-dinner","tag-friendship","tag-guest-contributor","tag-invitation","tag-justene-musin","tag-lunch","tag-note","tag-one-way-mirror","tag-song"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}