{"id":3668,"date":"2019-10-07T18:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2019-10-09T19:54:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T02:54:17","slug":"mystery-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/10\/07\/mystery-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A 9-year-old girl trick-or-treating in a black-and-white Halloween costume got mistaken somehow for a skunk. The lead detective on the case is borderline Asperger\u2019s. Covering an entire wall of her grubby office is one of those conspiracy theory maps, with all the pins connected by strings. \u201cI\u2019ll break anything in order to figure out how it works,\u201d she\u2019s famous around headquarters for saying. Her brisk confidence irks male colleagues. \u201cGo away,\u201d one shouts, \u201cand take your shitty forest!\u201d She can\u2019t hear him. She\u2019s out in a far corner of the city collecting evidence of the refulgence of pearls of blood. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author most recently of Spooky Action at a Distance from Analog Submission Press. He co-edits the journals Unbroken and UnLost.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old girl trick-or-treating in a black-and-white Halloween costume got mistaken somehow for a skunk. The lead detective on the case is borderline Asperger\u2019s. Covering an entire wall of her grubby office is one of those conspiracy theory maps, with all the pins connected by strings. \u201cI\u2019ll break anything in order to figure out how [&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":[8210,281,1564,6351,5271,8211,3069,8208,20,840,812,1107,41,759,8213,5038,7349,5779,19,186,4630,8212,8209,3552,138],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aspergers","tag-blood","tag-city","tag-colleagues","tag-confidence","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-corner","tag-costume","tag-detective","tag-evidence","tag-forest","tag-girl","tag-guest-contributor","tag-halloween","tag-headquarters","tag-hour","tag-howie-good","tag-maps","tag-mystery","tag-office","tag-pearls","tag-pins","tag-skunk","tag-strings","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","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=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}