{"id":3496,"date":"2019-04-15T18:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T01:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2019-04-15T18:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T01:23:46","slug":"spy-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/04\/15\/spy-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just before dawn, the train barreled across the border. My carryall bag on the overhead rack contained an entire set of ant-dreams preserved in amber. Spies lurked everywhere, but, after the train pulled in, I evaded them by frequently changing my facial expressions. Later that day, I traveled by sampan and pedicab to meet my contact, an experienced agent posing as an English nanny. We met in a neighborhood playground beside a tree whose round fruit the children pretended were bombs. At one point I forgot the word \u201ccremated\u201d and had to ask her, \u201cWhat\u2019s it called \u2013 incinerating the body?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author of The Titanic Sails at Dawn (Alien Buddha Press, 2019).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before dawn, the train barreled across the border. My carryall bag on the overhead rack contained an entire set of ant-dreams preserved in amber. Spies lurked everywhere, but, after the train pulled in, I evaded them by frequently changing my facial expressions. Later that day, I traveled by sampan and pedicab to meet my [&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":[7824,3410,2654,5970,6844,113,7828,2106,1211,2374,7825,3232,41,7349,7829,2102,7827,3231,7823,7826,7400,2334,258],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-amber","tag-ant","tag-bag","tag-bombs","tag-border","tag-children","tag-contact","tag-dawn","tag-dreams","tag-english","tag-facial-expressions","tag-fruit","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-nanny","tag-neighborhood","tag-pedicab","tag-playground","tag-rack","tag-sampan","tag-spies","tag-train","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","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=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}