{"id":193,"date":"2026-08-14T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/?p=193"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:33:36","slug":"diary-entry-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/2026\/08\/14\/diary-entry-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary Entry 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-193-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/diaryentry4-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/diaryentry4-1.mp3\">https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/diaryentry4-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I spent the day digging up rocks and daydreaming about my life before the virus. I think it helped to take myself away from this hellhole even though it was just in my mind. I miss my parents and my bed. Please let this whole thing be a dream. Any moment my mom is going to walk into my room and tell me to wake up and get ready for school. I will suddenly realize this life was just an awful nightmare brought on by bad pizza. I am going to hug my mom and apologize for everything I have done wrong in the past.<\/p>\n<p>I think I actually slept for a little while last night. I propped myself up against the wall and before I knew it the guards were rudely yelling at us to wake up. I refuse to believe this is the way I am supposed to spend the rest of my life. Today was a special day. All the slaves assembled in front of the tribe leader. I am not certain what he looked like because we weren\u2019t allowed to raise our heads. He gave a lovely speech and praised us for our hard work. If thoughts could kill his brains would be spread out all over the rock pile. A wheelbarrow of food was brought out and each slave was given about five seconds to grabbed something edible to eat. I am so glad I wasn\u2019t at the end of the line.<\/p>\n<p>Madie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day digging up rocks and daydreaming about my life before the virus. I think it helped to take myself away from this hellhole even though it was just in my mind. I miss my parents and my bed. Please let this whole thing be a dream. Any moment my mom is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,6,7,5,8,4],"tags":[16,10,13,12,14,11,15],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-fiction","category-madie-beartri","category-marsha-loftis","category-podcast","category-serial-fiction","category-story","tag-diary","tag-fiction","tag-madie-beartir","tag-marsha-loftis","tag-podcast","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}