{"id":2716,"date":"2017-04-11T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2017-04-11T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:29:47","slug":"the-west-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2017\/04\/11\/the-west-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"The West Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019d barely set down our suitcases when Vic said he wanted to leave. \u201cLet\u2019s wait for a Howard Johnson. This place is a dump. Look, cockroaches!\u201d<\/p>\n

And there they were, pausing to look at us as they strolled across the bed. \u201cYes,\u201d I said, \u201cbut they\u2019re dressed to the nines.\u201d<\/p>\n

They were stunning, her in a lacy ball gown with puffed sleeves and a train, fashioned from the iridescent wings of flies, and him in his coat and tails and tiny top hat. <\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s stay,\u201d I said. \u201cMaybe we can learn something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be stupid,\u201d he said. \u201cRoaches are roaches.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Brook Bhagat<\/p>\n

Brook\u2019s nonfiction, poetry, and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in dozens of publications, including Little India, Outpost, Nowhere Poetry, The Syzygy Poetry Journal, and Rat’s Ass Review, and she is the co-owner and chief editor of BluePlanetJournal.com. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College and an MFA from Lindenwood University and teaches creative writing at a community college. She has completed a full-length hybrid manuscript and is writing a novel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019d barely set down our suitcases when Vic said he wanted to leave. \u201cLet\u2019s wait for a Howard Johnson. This place is a dump. Look, cockroaches!\u201d And there they were, pausing to look at us as they strolled across the bed. \u201cYes,\u201d I said, \u201cbut they\u2019re dressed to the nines.\u201d They were stunning, her in […]<\/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":[2501,4499,5984,3538,5982,5896,4887,41,5981,5978,5980,5983,5985,2334,5979,2361],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bed","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-coat-and-tails","tag-cockroaches","tag-dump","tag-flies","tag-gown","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howard-johnson","tag-roaches","tag-suitcases","tag-the-nines","tag-top-hat","tag-train","tag-west-wing","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}