{"id":4404,"date":"2020-12-23T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2020-12-23T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T23:48:06","slug":"like-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/12\/23\/like-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Like The Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nThe steppe beneath me speeds by as I become one with the wind. The monk on my back screams with joy. My hooves kick cotton clouds, and fresh air caresses my muzzle. I gallop toward a light in the distance. My tail flows freely. A small dot appears in the middle of the great plain and gradually becomes larger. A colorful, three-storied pagoda comes into view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee that, Rlung-rta? That\u2019s our new home,\u201d the monk says, his voice bouncing with excitement. He grabs my mane as we descend. \u201cWe\u2019re reclaiming our faith,\u201d he says with a smile, patting my neck.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Toshiya Kamei<\/p>\n<p>Toshiya Kamei holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Arkansas. His translations have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy &#038; Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The steppe beneath me speeds by as I become one with the wind. The monk on my back screams with joy. My hooves kick cotton clouds, and fresh air caresses my muzzle. I gallop toward a light in the distance. My tail flows freely. A small dot appears in the middle of the great plain [&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":[2776,1069,1060,6206,4995,41,134,3040,3102,1230,9706,9704,7938,9705,7819,1821,8115,2769,8120,9650,5534,275],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-back","tag-choose-your-own-adventure","tag-clouds","tag-distance","tag-dot","tag-guest-contributor","tag-home","tag-hooves","tag-joy","tag-light","tag-mane","tag-monk","tag-muzzle","tag-pagoda","tag-plain","tag-smile","tag-steppe","tag-tail","tag-the-middle","tag-toshiya-kamei","tag-view","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","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=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}