{"id":3153,"date":"2018-06-14T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T17:53:04","slug":"the-golden-thread-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/06\/14\/the-golden-thread-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Thread Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s too dark. I heard there are tigers in this jungle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary tigers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent. They\u2019re faster, and their fangs have venom, like a snake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhat if we see one?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will see you first. Just watch. Just be still.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we be still with tigers after us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not after us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if they catch us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIf you run they will chase you and they will catch you. They tear the throat, and the poison goes in the blood. It paralyzes you, makes you blind, makes you forget why you are here. And then you drop the thread.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Brook Bhagat<\/p>\n<p>Brook Bhagat\u2019s poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and humor have appeared in Empty Mirror Magazine, Little India, D\u0103mf\u012bno, Nowhere Poetry, Rat&#8217;s Ass Review, Peacock Journal, A Story in 100 Words, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and other journals and anthologies. She has completed a full-length poetry manuscript, is writing a novel, and is editor-in-chief of Blue Planet Journal. She holds an MFA from Lindenwood University and teaches creative writing at a community college. More at brook-bhagat.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too dark. I heard there are tigers in this jungle.\u201d \u201cYes.\u201d \u201cOrdinary tigers?\u201d \u201cDifferent. They\u2019re faster, and their fangs have venom, like a snake.\u201d \u201cWhat if we see one?\u201d \u201cThey will see you first. Just watch. Just be still.\u201d \u201cHow can we be still with tigers after us?\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re not after us.\u201d \u201cWhat if [&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":[4724,281,4499,3720,1544,7063,41,7065,349,1124,7067,3582,1712,7064,7066],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blind","tag-blood","tag-brook-bhagat","tag-fangs","tag-flash-fiction","tag-golden-thread","tag-guest-contributor","tag-jungle","tag-poison","tag-snake","tag-thread","tag-throat","tag-tiger","tag-tigers","tag-venom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}