{"id":3858,"date":"2020-02-17T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T03:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2020-02-17T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T03:25:39","slug":"dead-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/02\/17\/dead-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If it wasn\u2019t for lack of encouragement growing up, I might have been an avant-garde artist, a Duchamp or a Warhol, famous for a star-like crack in a windshield, stick figures drawn on toilet paper, floors overflowing with blood. I carry a lot of photos in my phone. The only words anyone ever truly needs have all been cannibalized for parts. Still, when I announce, \u201cI\u2019m going to kill myself,\u201d I don\u2019t care what the police say, you better take it seriously. Saucer-eyed girls have been walking for a while now very close to a volcano with a beautiful name.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author most recently of Stick Figure Opera: 99 100-word Prose Poems from Cajun Mutt Press. He co-edits the online journals Unbroken and UnLost.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it wasn\u2019t for lack of encouragement growing up, I might have been an avant-garde artist, a Duchamp or a Warhol, famous for a star-like crack in a windshield, stick figures drawn on toilet paper, floors overflowing with blood. I carry a lot of photos in my phone. The only words anyone ever truly needs [&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":[1338,8652,281,3931,999,1211,8653,8357,6056,41,7349,5229,5567,8656,3312,1941,198,8655,8295,4288,8654,2279,37],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-artist","tag-avant-garde","tag-blood","tag-crack","tag-dead","tag-dreams","tag-duchamp","tag-encouragement","tag-floors","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-lack","tag-name","tag-parts","tag-phone","tag-photos","tag-police","tag-stick-figures","tag-toilet-paper","tag-volcano","tag-warhol","tag-windshield","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","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=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}