{"id":6709,"date":"2025-12-11T19:51:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:51:42","slug":"the-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/12\/11\/the-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ekanth carefully eases the postcard out of its nail. His fingers caress over the smiling faces etched against white peaks and pine-specked slopes. Bittersweet childhood memories rush through him: the long-planned vacation, the magical snow, the family selfie for a postcard, and then the crack of guns. All that remains is the postcard, now framed.<\/p>\n<p>Setting it down with a tremble, he climbs onto the stool beneath the fan. Noose in place, he closes his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Just then, the doorbell rings. His eyes jerk open. Neha smiles at him from a postcard, the Eiffel towering behind her. His gaze falters. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Naga Vydyanathan <\/p>\n<p>Naga likes to pen stories that explore the quiet fears and hidden thoughts of her characters. Her work has been published in online magazines like Literary Stories and MeanPepperVine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekanth carefully eases the postcard out of its nail. His fingers caress over the smiling faces etched against white peaks and pine-specked slopes. Bittersweet childhood memories rush through him: the long-planned vacation, the magical snow, the family selfie for a postcard, and then the crack of guns. All that remains is the postcard, now framed. [&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":[13750,3931,3665,13753,2720,3842,13751,10141,2749,3028,41,2398,13748,260,9166,10121,5061,6825,2071,13749,3149,9498,13752,2863],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-childhood-memories","tag-crack","tag-doorbell","tag-eiffel-tower","tag-eyes","tag-faces","tag-family-selfie","tag-fan","tag-fingers","tag-gaze","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guns","tag-naga-vydyanathan","tag-nail","tag-noose","tag-peaks","tag-pine","tag-postcard","tag-shot","tag-slopes","tag-snow","tag-stool","tag-tremble","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","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=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6710,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}