{"id":2005,"date":"2021-11-17T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2005"},"modified":"2023-05-20T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T11:55:09","slug":"micro-fiction-runner-up","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/contest\/micro-fiction-runner-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro Fiction Runner-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2006\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2006\" class=\"wp-image-2006\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/11\/The_Sky_in_Her_Eyes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/11\/The_Sky_in_Her_Eyes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/11\/The_Sky_in_Her_Eyes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/11\/The_Sky_in_Her_Eyes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/11\/The_Sky_in_Her_Eyes-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/11\/The_Sky_in_Her_Eyes-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Sky in Her Eyes&#8221; by Anum Farooq<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Absence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>by Cianna Garrison<\/h3>\n<p>Sunlight casts rays like marigolds on my face, pungent with scent. You, your Coke-bottle glasses, eyes that ache for sight. She, her sing-song voice humming synchronous, sonorous notes I can catch with my fingers. The sea\u2019s gentle breath whispers, exhales unintelligible words in its spray. I let them soak my feet. My grandparents, ancestors, drifting specters, have cast off their corporeality. They lash their tongues at us fallible humans, \u201c<em>Do not leave things unsaid.\u201d<\/em> I yearn for home, but all I have are memories, shifting like sands, salting my palms with absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absence by Cianna Garrison Sunlight casts rays like marigolds on my face, pungent with scent. You, your Coke-bottle glasses, eyes that ache for sight. She, her sing-song voice humming synchronous, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/contest\/micro-fiction-runner-up\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2722,"featured_media":0,"parent":376,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2005\/revisions\/2088"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}