{"id":4019,"date":"2020-05-06T20:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:05:15","slug":"senseless-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/05\/06\/senseless-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Senseless Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We\u2019re speeding in Mama\u2019s 1955 Chevrolet Bel-Air. Mama\u2019s talking about new names we\u2019ll concoct.  Lives we\u2019ll live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a movie,\u201d she says, smile crooked. \u201cOur lives. We can be anyone. Romanovs, if we want. People of privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think of him. Proclaiming Mama hysterical, a dreamer too much into writing and other subversive things. He threatened to have her committed. I think of Mama and me packing late at night, holding on to each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be fine,\u201d Mama says. \u201cHe can fuck himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We need plans, not senseless dreams. But she needs to believe. So do I.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Mama.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Yash Seyedbagheri <\/p>\n<p>Yash is a graduate of Colorado State University&#8217;s MFA program in fiction. Yash\u2019s work is forthcoming or has been published in WestWard Quarterly, Caf\u00e9 Lit, 50 Word Stories, (mac)ro (mic), and Ariel Chart. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re speeding in Mama\u2019s 1955 Chevrolet Bel-Air. Mama\u2019s talking about new names we\u2019ll concoct. Lives we\u2019ll live. \u201cIt\u2019s a movie,\u201d she says, smile crooked. \u201cOur lives. We can be anyone. Romanovs, if we want. People of privilege.\u201d I think of him. Proclaiming Mama hysterical, a dreamer too much into writing and other subversive things. He [&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":[8971,8970,2274,8440,1211,41,3891,3944,976,6891,6038,8972,1821,2293,8327],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bel-air","tag-chevrolet","tag-curse","tag-dreamer","tag-dreams","tag-guest-contributor","tag-lives","tag-mama","tag-movie","tag-names","tag-plans","tag-privilege","tag-smile","tag-writing","tag-yash-seyedbagheri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","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=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}