{"id":1598,"date":"2021-06-02T00:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T00:34:55","slug":"transition-classic-150-word-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Transition [Classic] (150 word story)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#00006d\"><em>This must have been for a high school class. I was 17. It didn&#8217;t come back with a grade, or a comment from the teacher like &#8216;Good job&#8217;. All the teacher wrote on it was &#8216;OK!&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>He had waited eagerly all his life for the time when he would become a full-fledged adult. He had seen how his brothers had begun the transition, patiently preparing themselves for their last sleep before awakening to the status of adulthood &#8212; when they would spread their wings and leave home for greener pastures and a new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now he felt ready, so he began to prepare himself for his last sleep of youth. He tucked himself in and closed his mind to his surroundings\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he awoke, he knew the change had taken place. He felt completely different &#8212; more alive than he ever had before. He crawled from his cocoon and looked upon the world with new eyes. He stretched a bit, then started off on his journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the butterfly sailed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This must have been for a high school class. I was 17. It didn&#8217;t come back with a grade, or a comment from the teacher like &#8216;Good job&#8217;. All the teacher wrote on it was &#8216;OK!&#8217; He had waited eagerly all his life for the time when he would become a full-fledged adult. He had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transition [Classic] (150 word story)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}