{"id":3135,"date":"2026-07-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beartribenet-journal-entry-002"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:49:31","slug":"journal-entry-002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/2026\/07\/01\/journal-entry-002\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Entry 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3135-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/Journal-Entry-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/Journal-Entry-2.mp3\">https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/Journal-Entry-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>There\u2019s trouble in Bear Country.<br \/>\nThe Runt came running down the admin hall before sun-up this morning, he was yelling at the top of his lungs.<br \/>\n\u201cGet up, Get up. They took our fuel! \u201c<br \/>\nI jumped off my couch and met the boy in the hallway.<br \/>\n\u201cOk, we get the point.\u201d I yelled back.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed the Runt by his shoulders and tried to calm him down.<br \/>\nBy this time everyone living in the admin hall was awake. Sleepy eyes everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Runt tried to squirm out of my hold as he cried.<br \/>\n\u201cTony\u2019s hurt, they beat him up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tony lives in the basement. He has been my friend (sort of) since before the world turned upside down. We didn\u2019t run in the same circles, but we had several classes together. He always asked my opinions on homework assignments. I used to wish he would ask me out on a date. Unfortunately, he was dating a cheerleader. Tony isn\u2019t very social these days, but he is very good at fixing whatever we break.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered the Runt to stay put in the admin hall and grabbed some muscle. When I say muscle, I am referring to Matt and Jonas. The three of us ran toward the basement.<\/p>\n<p>The basement was a mess, and Tony was slumped against the far wall, \u201cI tried to reason with them.\u201d he said as he spit out a mouth full of blood. \u201cThey took all our fuel!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tony said it was Central. I was not surprised. They have been giving us trouble for ages.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bobcats are from the East end of Lafayette Blvd we live on the west. We were rivals in football, basketball and volleyball. Our bands competed against each other in competitions before the world threw itself into chaos.\u00a0 The big difference between us and Central is that we are not a bunch of thieves and bullies.<\/p>\n<p>Madie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s trouble in Bear Country. The Runt came running down the admin hall before sun-up this morning, he was yelling at the top of his lungs. \u201cGet up, Get up. They took our fuel! \u201c I jumped off my couch and met the boy in the hallway. \u201cOk, we get the point.\u201d I yelled back. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/2026\/07\/01\/journal-entry-002\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Journal Entry 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"Journal Entry 2","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15],"tags":[32,35,38,59,62,70,73,75,78],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beartribenet-archive","category-diary","category-fiction","category-journal","category-madie-beartri","category-marsha-loftis","category-podcast","category-serial-fiction","category-story","category-teen-fiction","category-young-adult","tag-diary","tag-fiction","tag-journal","tag-madie-beartri","tag-marsha-loftis","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-teen-fiction","tag-young-adult"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}