{"id":3506,"date":"2019-04-30T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:21:08","slug":"the-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/04\/30\/the-beats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gregory Corso was sitting in the window of Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s East Village apartment \u2013 two, three hours, just sitting in silence. He had vowed to himself not to be a willing participant to any further chaos. Just to be every day, it took everything. You could be having a really nice time at the beach or the park one minute and in the next minute there could be cops with meaty red faces gassing and clubbing you. Once at a reading some lady asked him, \u201cWhat\u2019s an id?\u201d and he waited a bit before answering, \u201cEighteenth-century sea captains carousing in Surinam.\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>Gregory Corso was sitting in the window of Allen Ginsberg&#8217;s East Village apartment \u2013 two, three hours, just sitting in silence. He had vowed to himself not to be a willing participant to any further chaos. Just to be every day, it took everything. You could be having a really nice time at the beach [&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":[7846,1467,2149,7845,2500,197,7847,7849,3921,3842,41,7349,1784,3045,1692,7848,195,7850,1838,7851,1109,1552,1841],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-allen-ginsberg","tag-apartment","tag-beach","tag-beats","tag-chaos","tag-cops","tag-east-village","tag-every-day","tag-everything","tag-faces","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-id","tag-lady","tag-park","tag-participant","tag-reading","tag-sea-captain","tag-silence","tag-surinam","tag-time","tag-vow","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","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=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}