{"id":4296,"date":"2020-10-07T19:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T02:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:25:15","slug":"lonely-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/10\/07\/lonely-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Sometime after midnight I stepped into a smoky cellar bar, gave the miserable clientele the once-over, and located an empty stool toward the back. The bartender, a cigarette between his lips, was drying glasses with a dirty rag. In my beret and belted black raincoat, I might have been taken for a fugitive Trotskyite \u2013 or perhaps the assassin sent to execute him. A woman slipped onto the next stool. She had a face like that of a 13-year-old girl who died of heart failure following prolonged laughter. \u201cI am here to entertain you,\u201d she said, \u201cbut only during my shift.\u201d <\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie Good is the author of The Death Row Shuffle (Finishing Line Press, 2020) and The Trouble with Being Born (forthcoming from Ethel Micro-Press). <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime after midnight I stepped into a smoky cellar bar, gave the miserable clientele the once-over, and located an empty stool toward the back. The bartender, a cigarette between his lips, was drying glasses with a dirty rag. In my beret and belted black raincoat, I might have been taken for a fugitive Trotskyite \u2013 [&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":[2013,214,3001,9500,8347,1820,5269,1107,2551,9471,7349,1762,3705,9497,3603,8353,4254,2264,9498,9499,9501],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-assassin","tag-bar","tag-bartender","tag-beret","tag-cellar","tag-cigarette","tag-clientele","tag-girl","tag-glasses","tag-heart-failure","tag-howie-good","tag-laughter","tag-lips","tag-lonely-planet","tag-midnight","tag-rag","tag-raincoat","tag-shift","tag-stool","tag-the-back","tag-trotskyite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","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=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}