{"id":3984,"date":"2020-04-21T18:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2020-04-21T18:33:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:33:55","slug":"abracadabra-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/21\/abracadabra-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Abracadabra Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I got to tell you, what a computer thinks a man looks like, adversarially evolved hallucinations, is the kind of shit that wears me out. But, apparently, it isn\u2019t the kind of shit that wears most other people out. Their focus is just too taken up with acquiring the essentials \u2013 liquor, guns, toilet paper, travel bottles of hand sanitizer \u2013 for them to ever notice the heart lying in rags at their feet, or the African monkeys rafting across the Atlantic, or the shrill, jangly sound in the background that can be variously translated as \u201chello\u201d or \u201cgoodbye\u201d or even \u201cpeace.\u201d<\/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>I got to tell you, what a computer thinks a man looks like, adversarially evolved hallucinations, is the kind of shit that wears me out. But, apparently, it isn\u2019t the kind of shit that wears most other people out. Their focus is just too taken up with acquiring the essentials \u2013 liquor, guns, toilet paper, [&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":[8928,5297,7755,3337,2274,8022,3919,41,2398,8924,8926,749,7349,8925,22,8927,2914,8295,465],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-atlantic","tag-background","tag-bottles","tag-computer","tag-curse","tag-essentials","tag-focus","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guns","tag-hallucinations","tag-hand-sanitizer","tag-heart","tag-howie-good","tag-liquor","tag-monkeys","tag-rags","tag-sound","tag-toilet-paper","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}