{"id":6849,"date":"2026-03-10T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:25:39","slug":"war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2026\/03\/10\/war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I watched as my buddy exploded into fragments from a grenade. I saw the fear on his face knowing at that moment, he would die. It was chaotic and when I ran for cover, I thought he was behind me, but he stayed to help an injured soldier to safety. Now, both are gone. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in the trench shaken, wishing I were anywhere else but here. <\/p>\n<p>I heard the tanks roaring, and men yelled, guns ready in hand.  <\/p>\n<p>My ears rang; head pounded with all sound, until everything became muffled, and my right hand shook uncontrollably.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the explosion. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched as my buddy exploded into fragments from a grenade. I saw the fear on his face knowing at that moment, he would die. It was chaotic and when I ran for cover, I thought he was behind me, but he stayed to help an injured soldier to safety. Now, both are gone. I\u2019m [&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":[9820,6810,2538,3921,2838,899,7292,1020,41,2398,3766,5521,7150,5030,6431,2250,2166,2914,5695,8938,88],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-buddy","tag-cover","tag-ears","tag-everything","tag-face","tag-fear","tag-fragments","tag-grenade","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guns","tag-head","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-men","tag-moment","tag-right-hand","tag-safety","tag-soldier","tag-sound","tag-tanks","tag-trench","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","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=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}