{"id":3869,"date":"2020-02-24T23:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2020-02-25T22:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:15:53","slug":"life-misspelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/02\/24\/life-misspelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Misspelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Intelligent machines probe not only my words, but also the silent spaces between words, searching for hidden doors to secret rooms. As a kid, I won a goldfish at the county fair by tossing a ping-pong ball into the fish\u2019s bowl. My mom flushed Goldie down the toilet while I was at school. I think of it sometimes when I see Nazis invading Poland on the History Channel. \u201cLast name?\u201d the woman behind the counter asks, eyes on the computer screen, hands poised on the keyboard. \u201cGood,\u201d I say. \u201cHow do you spell that?\u201d \u201cLike God, but with two o\u2019s.\u201d<\/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>Intelligent machines probe not only my words, but also the silent spaces between words, searching for hidden doors to secret rooms. As a kid, I won a goldfish at the county fair by tossing a ping-pong ball into the fish\u2019s bowl. My mom flushed Goldie down the toilet while I was at school. I think [&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":[6108,8674,8670,3942,108,8187,41,2352,7349,6188,4501,8673,2191,8668,1023,8672,8671,8304,3906,131,8669,37],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bowl","tag-computer-screen","tag-county-fair","tag-doors","tag-god","tag-goldfish","tag-guest-contributor","tag-history-channel","tag-howie-good","tag-keyboard","tag-kid","tag-last-name","tag-life","tag-machines","tag-mom","tag-nazis","tag-ping-pong-ball","tag-poland","tag-rooms","tag-school","tag-spaces","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3870,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}