{"id":3894,"date":"2020-03-12T16:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2020-03-13T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:47:44","slug":"barking-at-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/03\/12\/barking-at-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Barking At Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One minute I\u2019m falling exhausted into bed. The next I\u2019m getting beaten by goombahs wielding metal bats. \u201cI\u2019m going to die,\u201d I think. \u201cI\u2019m going to lose everything.\u201d My body trembles like it\u2019s not under my jurisdiction anymore. I don\u2019t want to make this sound worse than it is, but there isn\u2019t a lot else happening, just assorted crises, each at a different point of unfolding. It\u2019s an intricate universe. When day returns with a button or two missing, I\u2019m spooning hot cereal into a small white dog that has been exhibiting signs of incipient dementia. Heartache is everyone\u2019s neighbor.<\/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>One minute I\u2019m falling exhausted into bed. The next I\u2019m getting beaten by goombahs wielding metal bats. \u201cI\u2019m going to die,\u201d I think. \u201cI\u2019m going to lose everything.\u201d My body trembles like it\u2019s not under my jurisdiction anymore. I don\u2019t want to make this sound worse than it is, but there isn\u2019t a lot else [&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":[8734,2501,1677,3367,8736,3325,4167,213,8733,41,8738,8737,7349,8735,3426,1066,465],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bats","tag-bed","tag-body","tag-button","tag-crises","tag-day","tag-dementia","tag-dog","tag-goombahs","tag-guest-contributor","tag-heartache","tag-hot-cereal","tag-howie-good","tag-jurisdiction","tag-neighbor","tag-shadows","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","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=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}