{"id":6455,"date":"2025-04-30T18:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T01:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T01:24:25","slug":"homecoming-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/04\/30\/homecoming-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Izzy rubbed her protruding stomach. It\u2019d been months since she\u2019d seen him, and soon he\u2019d find out she was pregnant. <\/p>\n<p>Sam was on his way home, the war ended. Izzy prepared his favorite meal, lamb with cut string beans and mashed potatoes. The aroma of cooked meat and vegetables filled the room.<\/p>\n<p>The doorbell rang and Izzy hastened to answer it. There in the doorway stood Sam holding a bouquet of freshly cut flowers. <\/p>\n<p>Sam stared at her stomach. \u201cIzzy, are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before he could finish the sentence, she pulled him into a hug and screamed yes, the meal forgotten. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Izzy rubbed her protruding stomach. It\u2019d been months since she\u2019d seen him, and soon he\u2019d find out she was pregnant. Sam was on his way home, the war ended. Izzy prepared his favorite meal, lamb with cut string beans and mashed potatoes. The aroma of cooked meat and vegetables filled the room. The doorbell rang [&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":[6593,6402,3665,3029,2963,134,92,2875,5346,7436,3372,313,5132,4061,7645,3706,8599,3935,784,88,5339],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aroma","tag-bouquet","tag-doorbell","tag-doorway","tag-flowers","tag-home","tag-homecoming","tag-hug","tag-lamb","tag-mashed-potatoes","tag-meal","tag-meat","tag-months","tag-pregnant","tag-sentence","tag-stomach","tag-string-beans","tag-surprise","tag-vegetables","tag-war","tag-yes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","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=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6456,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}