{"id":137,"date":"2014-01-30T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/?p=137"},"modified":"2014-01-30T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T08:44:58","slug":"interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I answered this <a title=\"What is the shortest sad story you can come up with?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Creative-Writing\/What-is-the-shortest-sad-story-you-can-come-up-with\">question<\/a> on Quora, &#8220;What is the shortest sad story you can come up with?&#8221; <a title=\"She waited for him. Forever.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Creative-Writing\/What-is-the-shortest-sad-story-you-can-come-up-with\/answer\/Meeta-Kabra?__snids__=303890704&amp;__nsrc__=2\">with<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She waited for him. Forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first thought of it, I loved the fact that it can be interpreted in many ways. Of course, didn&#8217;t want to explain it there, so here goes &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was waiting for him to reply to a message\/e-mail\/letter and he never did and we don&#8217;t know why.<\/li>\n<li>He had left her, and she didn&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li>He was dead, and she didn&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li>She was waiting for what <strong><em>she<\/em><\/strong> felt like was forever, but it had been only a few minutes.<br \/>\nMy favorite &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>She was waiting for the &#8220;one&#8221; for her, and she never found him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Multiple interpretations got me to wonder if there were more. What was(were) your interpretations?<\/p>\n<p>And there was the other thought, what if I exchanged the gender, which I tried <a title=\"He waited for her. Forever.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Short-Stories\/What-is-the-most-intriguing-story-you-can-come-up-with-in-just-five-words\/answer\/Meeta-Kabra\">here<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He waited for her. Forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does it bring about more interpretations? Or does it change the texture of the story?<\/p>\n<p>Do men and women react differently to the two stories because the genders are changed around?<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I answered this question on Quora, &#8220;What is the shortest sad story you can come up with?&#8221; with She waited for him. Forever. When I first thought of it, I loved the fact that it can be interpreted in many ways. Of course, didn&#8217;t want to explain it there, so here goes &#8211; She&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/interpretation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Interpretation&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/meetu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}