{"id":4146,"date":"2020-07-03T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T00:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2020-07-03T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T00:31:35","slug":"beginners-guide-dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/07\/03\/beginners-guide-dystopia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner\u2019s Guide To Dystopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the street outside, a loudspeaker boomed, \u201cAccording to the decree of the 17th of this month on the Abolition of Walls.\u201d I got up from the table where I was reading and went over to the window. Banners with the slogan \u201cPublic Interest Comes Before Self-Interest\u201d fluttered in endless repetition down the street. Practically right under my window, officers were clubbing a man who lay crumpled on the pavement. I sighed, then went and sat back down and found my place in the book \u2013 sea nymphs with red seaweed hair were sunning themselves on the ledges of seaside cliffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author of THE DEATH ROW SHUFFLE, a poetry collection forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the street outside, a loudspeaker boomed, \u201cAccording to the decree of the 17th of this month on the Abolition of Walls.\u201d I got up from the table where I was reading and went over to the window. Banners with the slogan \u201cPublic Interest Comes Before Self-Interest\u201d fluttered in endless repetition down the street. Practically [&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":[9197,1747,9195,164,6719,7417,7059,41,7349,9202,9196,5385,4192,9198,9200,9201,6722,9199,7489,1971,4396,1841],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-abolition","tag-banners","tag-beginners-guide","tag-book","tag-cliffs","tag-decree","tag-dystopia","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-ledges","tag-loudspeaker","tag-officers","tag-pavement","tag-public-interest","tag-repetition","tag-sea-nymphs","tag-seaweed","tag-self-interest","tag-slogan","tag-street","tag-walls","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","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=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}