{"id":2485,"date":"2016-09-20T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:57:17","slug":"lunch-with-maurice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/09\/20\/lunch-with-maurice\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch With Maurice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was doing time at another warehouse.<br \/>\nAnother W2 in a factotum year.<br \/>\nMaurice, pudding formed with a handlebar mustache, sat across from me.<br \/>\nHe liked security. \u201cI keep a weapon in every room. I don\u2019t even lock my door. I have got a shotgun on the wall, a handgun in each room unregistered. I got a bat in the bathroom and a sword under my bed with a knife between my pillows.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cExpecting trouble?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMy dad was in the navy. Antiwar activists target the relatives of veterans.\u201d<br \/>\nMaurice was found dead in his apartment.<br \/>\nStabbed in the eye.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Michael Zone<\/p>\n<p>Michael is the author of Fellow Passengers: Pubic Transit Poetry, Meditations &#038; Musings and Better than the Movies: 4 Screenplays. His work has been featured in Because Eileen, Dead Snakes, Horror Trash Sleaze, In Between Hangovers, Three Line Poetry, Triadae, and The Voices Project. He scrapes by in Grand Rapids, MI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing time at another warehouse. Another W2 in a factotum year. Maurice, pudding formed with a handlebar mustache, sat across from me. He liked security. \u201cI keep a weapon in every room. I don\u2019t even lock my door. I have got a shotgun on the wall, a handgun in each room unregistered. I [&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":[5353,1467,5351,814,2501,999,1863,5349,41,4668,5350,1735,5347,264,5352,1025,3121,5355,596,2997,5356,120,3918,5354,5348,2829],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-activists","tag-apartment","tag-bat","tag-bathroom","tag-bed","tag-dead","tag-eye","tag-factotum","tag-guest-contributor","tag-handgun","tag-handlebar-mustache","tag-knife","tag-michael-zone","tag-mustache","tag-navy","tag-pillows","tag-pudding","tag-relatives","tag-security","tag-shotgun","tag-stabbed","tag-sword","tag-trouble","tag-veterans","tag-w2","tag-warehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","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=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}