{"id":3368,"date":"2018-12-17T19:59:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2018-12-17T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:59:43","slug":"human-beings-are-the-only-wild-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2018\/12\/17\/human-beings-are-the-only-wild-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Beings Are The Only Wild Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Whenever I fly into a foreign country, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll be dragged into a room and forced to answer questions I\u2019ll fail to understand. \u201cYou can do better,\u201d the examiner will say, just before firing an electric current through the alligator clips attached to my ears. By the time I\u2019m released from custody, I\u2019ll be bent, shriveled, gnome-like, and afflicted with tremors. These events repeat themselves in my mind on a loop, every recurrence worse than the last, now involving sleep deprivation, now an inmate orchestra playing a German requiem, now corpses sprawled half in, half out of broken caskets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Howie&#8217;s latest poetry collections are I&#8217;m Not a Robot from Tolsun Books and A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel from Analog Submissions Press.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I fly into a foreign country, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll be dragged into a room and forced to answer questions I\u2019ll fail to understand. \u201cYou can do better,\u201d the examiner will say, just before firing an electric current through the alligator clips attached to my ears. By the time I\u2019m released from custody, I\u2019ll be [&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":[7513,1709,7521,1209,7514,2538,7512,5784,7511,7509,7520,241,41,7349,7508,7516,2922,7519,1876,7517,3510,7518,7515,7510],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alligator-clips","tag-animals","tag-caskets","tag-corpses","tag-custody","tag-ears","tag-electric-current","tag-events","tag-examiner","tag-foreign-country","tag-german-requiem","tag-gnome","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-human-beings","tag-loop","tag-mind","tag-orchestra","tag-questions","tag-recurrence","tag-room","tag-sleep-deprivation","tag-tremors","tag-wild-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","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=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}