{"id":4032,"date":"2020-05-13T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2020-05-13T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:01:11","slug":"the-walking-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/05\/13\/the-walking-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thinking about escaping across closed borders, I dug a hole outside. It was hard work. I pulled out bricks, barbed wire, glass bottles and jars, and old cans as I dug deeper. When my mind drifted too far into sadness, I stopped. Everything moves slowly now. I\u2019m learning to be very stingy with supplies. On the table is a bunch of flowers I found in the trash. This may be a day for catching up on The Walking Dead, but I stand at a window that looks out on a yard. Somehow, just standing there feels like a hopeful gesture.<\/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>Thinking about escaping across closed borders, I dug a hole outside. It was hard work. I pulled out bricks, barbed wire, glass bottles and jars, and old cans as I dug deeper. When my mind drifted too far into sadness, I stopped. Everything moves slowly now. I\u2019m learning to be very stingy with supplies. On [&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":[7140,8995,7755,1490,8030,999,2963,3547,2133,41,8996,181,7349,8997,2922,2928,2456,2667,3221,8994,4509,3621],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-barbed-wire","tag-borders","tag-bottles","tag-bricks","tag-cans","tag-dead","tag-flowers","tag-gesture","tag-glass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hard-work","tag-hole","tag-howie-good","tag-jars","tag-mind","tag-outside","tag-sadness","tag-supplies","tag-table","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-trash","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","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=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}