{"id":2282,"date":"2016-04-27T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2016-04-28T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:43:46","slug":"after-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/04\/27\/after-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"After Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After midnight, we climb the cemetery fence. <\/p>\n<p>The sky is black as ink, but Gordy\u2019s brought a flashlight. He\u2019s been out of juvie for two days now.<\/p>\n<p>I follow him to the far corner of the plot, wind brushing my clothes like ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>His dad\u2019s name is on the headstone along with this year\u2019s date, him having died while Gordy was locked up.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen the stripes on Gordy\u2019s back, his broken nose, of course, but when Gordy takes out a sledge hammer, winding up, I grab his arm, saying, \u201cDo that and he wins.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Len Kuntz<\/p>\n<p>Len is a writer from Washington State, an editor at the online magazine Literary Orphans, and the author of I\u2019M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE AND NEITHER ARE YOU out now from Unknown Press.  You can also find him at <a href=\"http:\/\/lenkuntz.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">lenkuntz.blogspot.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After midnight, we climb the cemetery fence. The sky is black as ink, but Gordy\u2019s brought a flashlight. He\u2019s been out of juvie for two days now. I follow him to the far corner of the plot, wind brushing my clothes like ghosts. \u201cThis is it,\u201d he says. His dad\u2019s name is on the headstone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2770,4787,494,1024,999,2895,4783,545,41,4785,2909,4784,4781,3603,4782,1736,4788,4786],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-black","tag-broken-nose","tag-cemetery","tag-dad","tag-dead","tag-fence","tag-flashlight","tag-ghosts","tag-guest-contributor","tag-headstone","tag-ink","tag-juvie","tag-len-kuntz","tag-midnight","tag-plot","tag-sky","tag-sledge-hammer","tag-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}