{"id":3188,"date":"2018-07-26T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T23:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T23:47:43","slug":"the-chariot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/07\/26\/the-chariot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pale reaching hands slipped below powdered ash and blood-soaked mud, pressing tighter to the earth, seeking salvation in the grave-like ditch. War thundered overhead as gunpowder sparked and chorused above. The soldier turned his silver eyes over the mud\u2014to the cemetery of barbed wire and bruised corpses.<\/p>\n<p>A high-pitched scream wailed distantly from two warring steeds tethered together. He watched the blood-stained Roan shriek and kick as it fell into the sea of barbed wire; the moon-kissed Arabian jolted from the tearing spikes, her gas mask hanging from bloodied leather, not knowing whether to die quietly or while struggling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Mikayla E. Gruber<\/p>\n<p>Mikayla is currently writing a fantasy\/sci-fi novel and studying English and German at Pikes Peak Comunity College. She is also working towards a CPDT-KA Certification. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pale reaching hands slipped below powdered ash and blood-soaked mud, pressing tighter to the earth, seeking salvation in the grave-like ditch. War thundered overhead as gunpowder sparked and chorused above. The soldier turned his silver eyes over the mud\u2014to the cemetery of barbed wire and bruised corpses. A high-pitched scream wailed distantly from two warring [&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":[7143,7138,7140,494,2525,1209,4733,269,7145,41,5514,2927,1477,7137,1204,7142,7139,3317,2166,7144,7141,88],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arabian","tag-ash","tag-barbed-wire","tag-cemetery","tag-chariot","tag-corpses","tag-ditch","tag-earth","tag-gas-mask","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gunpowder","tag-hands","tag-leather","tag-mikayla-e-gruber","tag-mud","tag-roan","tag-salvation","tag-scream","tag-soldier","tag-spikes","tag-steeds","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","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=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}