{"id":3309,"date":"2018-11-06T22:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2018-11-07T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T03:42:44","slug":"a-wandering-soap-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/11\/06\/a-wandering-soap-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wandering Soap Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I feel like a gull getting sucked into a jet engine. Furniture salesmen, spies, serial killers, etc., take turns following me through town. I recognize them by their nondescript appearance. Private lives are now being lived in public. We\u2019re a wandering soap opera. That\u2019s the problem with putting Velveeta on enchiladas. And nobody has to ask what the Kremlin thinks about all of this. Traces are visible from the air. I just want some semblance of normality back in my life, some sort of quiet, and my heart to stop furiously pedaling as if there were actually somewhere to go.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie co-edits the journals UnLost and Unbroken with Dale Wisely.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like a gull getting sucked into a jet engine. Furniture salesmen, spies, serial killers, etc., take turns following me through town. I recognize them by their nondescript appearance. Private lives are now being lived in public. We\u2019re a wandering soap opera. That\u2019s the problem with putting Velveeta on enchiladas. And nobody has to [&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":[4652,7402,7405,7399,41,7397,749,7349,7398,7406,2191,4777,7408,7403,3974,2915,7409,7401,7396,7400,1369,7407,7404],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-air","tag-appearance","tag-enchiladas","tag-furniture-salesmen","tag-guest-contributor","tag-gull","tag-heart","tag-howie-good","tag-jet-engine","tag-kremlin","tag-life","tag-nobody","tag-normality","tag-private-lives","tag-public","tag-quiet","tag-semblance","tag-serial-killers","tag-soap-opera","tag-spies","tag-town","tag-traces","tag-velveeta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","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=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}