{"id":6578,"date":"2025-08-18T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:00:35","slug":"change-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/08\/18\/change-of-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Of Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Think of it as a substitute pump,\u201d the surgeons encourage him. \u201cLatest technology, stringent testing. Equally life-enhancing as the heart God gave you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will it buy him time for his daughter\u2019s imminent wedding? Or beyond, and a new grandchild? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSide effects include problematic emotional disorders.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Surely morning birdsong, leisurely travel, favourite classical music will quiet unexplained turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>He acquiesces, yet flails against this plastic invader into his chest.<\/p>\n<p>Without warning, a fog enwraps his mind, shrouds familiar feelings. The mystifying retreat of joy, sorrow, empathy panics him. Why has love for his daughter vanished?<\/p>\n<p>Oblivious, his new heart pumps steadily.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Gary Thomson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of it as a substitute pump,\u201d the surgeons encourage him. \u201cLatest technology, stringent testing. Equally life-enhancing as the heart God gave you.\u201d Will it buy him time for his daughter\u2019s imminent wedding? Or beyond, and a new grandchild? \u201cSide effects include problematic emotional disorders.\u201d Surely morning birdsong, leisurely travel, favourite classical music will quiet [&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":[12812,3258,13527,1352,13526,10340,2734,2542,13522,108,6367,41,749,3102,600,2922,2921,2783,486,2227,2218,13523,13524,1009,13525,1109,4356,13528,1376],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birdsong","tag-chest","tag-classical-music","tag-daughter","tag-emotional-disorder","tag-empathy","tag-feelings","tag-fog","tag-gary-thomson","tag-god","tag-grandchild","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heart","tag-joy","tag-love","tag-mind","tag-morning","tag-pump","tag-retreat","tag-side-effects","tag-sorrow","tag-substitute","tag-surgeons","tag-technology","tag-testing","tag-time","tag-travel","tag-turmoil","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","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=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}