{"id":4095,"date":"2020-06-11T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:42:32","slug":"neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/06\/11\/neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everett was swinging back and forth on his porch enjoying a glass of iced tea, sweet tea, watching the annual 4th of July parade make its way past the little house he\u2019d lived in all his life. <\/p>\n

Everything he understood about history he\u2019d learned watching that parade go up that road. <\/p>\n

Here came local girls twirling pretend wooden rifles in front of the marching band from over at the white high school. <\/p>\n

Back when Everett was young, girls, black and white, twirled batons. But the world today was meaner. Neighbors didn\u2019t even try anymore. Or so it seemed to Everett. <\/strong><\/p>\n

From Guest Contributor Brian Beatty<\/p>\n

Brian is the author of four poetry collections: Borrowed Trouble; Dust and Stars: Miniatures; Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem; and Coyotes I Couldn\u2019t See. Beatty lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota. <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everett was swinging back and forth on his porch enjoying a glass of iced tea, sweet tea, watching the annual 4th of July parade make its way past the little house he\u2019d lived in all his life. Everything he understood about history he\u2019d learned watching that parade go up that road. Here came local girls […]<\/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":[9109,9112,9106,1713,2133,41,91,1621,2103,9107,2191,9111,3162,3812,3280,9110,9108,3880],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-4th-of-july","tag-batons","tag-brian-beatty","tag-girls","tag-glass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-high-school","tag-history","tag-house","tag-iced-tea","tag-life","tag-marching-band","tag-neighbors","tag-parade","tag-porch","tag-rifles","tag-sweet-tea","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}