{"id":4262,"date":"2020-09-10T20:43:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2020-09-10T20:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:43:59","slug":"only-beauty-survives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/09\/10\/only-beauty-survives\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Beauty Survives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The king delighted in varying which crowns he wore. One day he\u2019d wear a crown of gold; the next, a crown of silver or of iron, or even a crown eccentrically fashioned from barbed wire. When he wore the latter, he was always surprised when blood ran in rivulets into his eyes. The queen, meanwhile, hated anyone who might be thought more beautiful than she was. She frequently sent assassins throughout the land to eliminate all possible rivals. That sound isn\u2019t thunder, people would say, but an assassin rapping on the door of a cottage until his knuckles are raw.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author of The Death Row Shuffle, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. He co-edits the online journals Unbroken and UnLost. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The king delighted in varying which crowns he wore. One day he\u2019d wear a crown of gold; the next, a crown of silver or of iron, or even a crown eccentrically fashioned from barbed wire. When he wore the latter, he was always surprised when blood ran in rivulets into his eyes. The queen, meanwhile, [&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":[9419,7140,2592,281,6742,9417,940,41,7349,5648,347,2564,412,5002,9418,4566,2914,1763],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-assassins","tag-barbed-wire","tag-beauty","tag-blood","tag-cottage","tag-crowns","tag-gold","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-iron","tag-king","tag-knuckles","tag-queen","tag-rivals","tag-rivulets","tag-silver","tag-sound","tag-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","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=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}