{"id":4008,"date":"2020-04-30T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:50:05","slug":"sick-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/04\/30\/sick-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s like a post-apocalyptic movie. A usually bustling city is eerily vacant. Essential supplies have come to include liquor, guns, and toilet paper. Who isn\u2019t secretly embarrassed? Around midnight I take a puzzle apart just for the hell of it. The next morning my department holds a Zoom session on how to prevent cheating in online classes. Other professors mention they also have been having strange dreams. In mine, I\u2019m eating Crown Fried Chicken on a bench while eyeballs the size of boulders roll across the grass and dirt, and a woman I recognize from TV weeps into her hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie Good is the author of What It Is and How to Use It (2019) from Grey Book Press, among other poetry collections. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s like a post-apocalyptic movie. A usually bustling city is eerily vacant. Essential supplies have come to include liquor, guns, and toilet paper. Who isn\u2019t secretly embarrassed? Around midnight I take a puzzle apart just for the hell of it. The next morning my department holds a Zoom session on how to prevent cheating in [&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":[2696,5587,1564,3064,2660,1211,8958,8963,8962,529,41,2398,332,7349,8925,3603,2921,976,8961,6481,8959,7925,8295,723,8957,3880,8960],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bench","tag-boulders","tag-city","tag-department","tag-dirt","tag-dreams","tag-essential-supplies","tag-eyeballs","tag-fried-chicken","tag-grass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guns","tag-hell","tag-howie-good","tag-liquor","tag-midnight","tag-morning","tag-movie","tag-online-classes","tag-professors","tag-puzzle","tag-session","tag-toilet-paper","tag-tv","tag-vacant","tag-world","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","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=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}