{"id":3974,"date":"2020-04-15T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2020-04-15T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T05:47:17","slug":"lady-macbeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/15\/lady-macbeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Macbeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY:<\/p>\n<p>Life had become so boring, so beige boring. Every day it was hound the maids, light the candles, greet the guests. Then along came prophecy! What\u2019s not to believe about a witch, let alone three? Once again, my world oozed with possibility.<\/p>\n<p>What came to pass?  Life in red, gushing red. There was blood in the soup, blood in the stew, blood on the hands of my husband. I thought about the plagues in Egypt, the Pharaoh who knew about miracles turned against him. I thought about science. That what flows, surely ebbs? While the old king\u2019s blood ran blue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Linda Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Linda Lowe&#8217;s poems and stories have appeared in Gone Lawn, Crack the Spine, What Rough Beast, New Verse News, Tiny Molecules and others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY: Life had become so boring, so beige boring. Every day it was hound the maids, light the candles, greet the guests. Then along came prophecy! What\u2019s not to believe about a witch, let alone three? Once again, my world oozed with possibility. What came to pass? Life in red, gushing red. There [&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":[8897,281,5361,1985,41,8898,2927,102,1285,347,8896,2191,7920,8477,254,8902,8901,8900,8899,54,1553,7762,776],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beige","tag-blood","tag-candles","tag-egypt","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guests","tag-hands","tag-historical-fiction","tag-husband","tag-king","tag-lady-macbeth","tag-life","tag-linda-lowe","tag-maids","tag-miracles","tag-pharaoh","tag-plagues","tag-possibility","tag-prophecy","tag-science","tag-soup","tag-stew","tag-witch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","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=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}