{"id":3882,"date":"2020-03-04T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2020-03-04T22:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T05:59:59","slug":"myth-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/03\/04\/myth-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The day is cold even by New England standards. Girls dump menstrual blood on icy sidewalks in some kind of protest. Myth is dead. Our high school biology textbook compared the body to a furnace. Mr. C, our very nice teacher, was killed that spring with his wife and baby daughter in a car wreck. There\u2019s no point in speaking ironically to people who can\u2019t understand irony. You\u2019ll just end up having to publicly apologize. Freud said dreams are the day\u2019s residue. It has to linger for a while, as if to warn we\u2019re a danger to self and others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From 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>The day is cold even by New England standards. Girls dump menstrual blood on icy sidewalks in some kind of protest. Myth is dead. Our high school biology textbook compared the body to a furnace. Mr. C, our very nice teacher, was killed that spring with his wife and baby daughter in a car wreck. [&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":[8701,281,1677,6779,957,1352,3325,999,1211,8704,8703,1713,41,91,7349,1997,5252,6042,8699,3238,7758,7704,8700,648,8702,153],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-biology","tag-blood","tag-body","tag-car-wreck","tag-danger","tag-daughter","tag-day","tag-dead","tag-dreams","tag-freud","tag-furnace","tag-girls","tag-guest-contributor","tag-high-school","tag-howie-good","tag-irony","tag-match","tag-myth","tag-new-england","tag-protest","tag-residue","tag-sidewalks","tag-standards","tag-teacher","tag-textbook","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}