{"id":2459,"date":"2016-08-26T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2016-08-29T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:40:26","slug":"song-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/08\/26\/song-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s seven in the morning. I\u2019m supposed to be at Songshan Church in Taipei teaching a small Sabbath-School group at nine. But I\u2019m sitting in my kitchen hot boxing a cigarette. Mitigating the queasiness from last night\u2019s escape: a single malt Speyside scotch accompanied by Mozart\u2019s Requiem.<\/p>\n<p>Blazing summer humid heat even at this hour. Should I shower? Will they smell the booze and tobacco on me?<\/p>\n<p>A two-hour train ride later and I find myself up in front of all of the congregants. Ambushed into leading out in song service. The sweat oozes and I wonder if they know.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Robert Vogt <\/p>\n<p>Robert worked as a custodian for a number of years until switching to EFL educator after graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Fine Arts. Changing from manual laborer to educator caused Vogt much regret though he has reaped manifold benefits from the career change. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Degenerate Literature, Horror, Sleaze and Trash, Outlaw Poetry, and Unlost Journal. Vogt is chief editor at White Liquor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s seven in the morning. I\u2019m supposed to be at Songshan Church in Taipei teaching a small Sabbath-School group at nine. But I\u2019m sitting in my kitchen hot boxing a cigarette. Mitigating the queasiness from last night\u2019s escape: a single malt Speyside scotch accompanied by Mozart\u2019s Requiem. Blazing summer humid heat even at this hour. [&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":[5290,1738,1820,5291,1852,41,1268,5289,1097,2921,5288,5286,5284,3052,2582,3833,1084,5287,700,3134,5285,3026,2334],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-booze","tag-church","tag-cigarette","tag-congregants","tag-escape","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heat","tag-humid","tag-kitchen","tag-morning","tag-mozarts-requiem","tag-queasiness","tag-robert-vogt","tag-scotch","tag-service","tag-shower","tag-song","tag-speyside","tag-summer","tag-sweat","tag-taipei","tag-tobacco","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","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=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}