{"id":1287,"date":"2019-01-02T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2019-01-02T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:00:32","slug":"schroedingers-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/schroedingers-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Schroedinger\u2019s Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I wrote this is for the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/isawlightningfall.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/advent-ghosts-2018-stories.html\"><em>Advent Ghosts 2018<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/isawlightningfall.blogspot.com\/\"><em>I Saw Lightning Fall<\/em><\/a><em>. Our challenge was to write short snippets of 100 words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time a troll gave me a gift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe day you die, you will open this box,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>I cast it into a nearby stream and watched it float away.<\/p>\n<p>It was waiting for me the next morning in my childhood closet.<\/p>\n<p>I nearly opened it at University the night of my first true heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and after our first real fight (it met the wood-burning stove that night).<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and when I lost my job.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and when I lost her.<\/p>\n<p>My lonely, arthritic hands tremble as I chuck it into the bin on this cold Christmas morn.<\/p>\n<p>Not today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this is for the\u00a0Advent Ghosts 2018\u00a0at\u00a0I Saw Lightning Fall. Our challenge was to write short snippets of 100 words. Once upon a time a troll gave me a gift. \u201cThe day you die, you will open this box,\u201d she said. I cast it into a nearby stream and watched it float away. It was waiting for me the next morning in my childhood closet. I nearly opened it at University the night of my first true heartbreak. \u2026and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/schroedingers-gift\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-kL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}