{"id":4439,"date":"2021-01-21T18:32:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T01:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T01:32:56","slug":"a-poverty-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/01\/21\/a-poverty-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poverty Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The guests looked on with complete bewilderment as my future parents exchanged what sounded like ironic wedding vows. Afterwards at the reception, a farmer sang about his favorite crop and then it was the best man\u2019s turn to speak. He had barely begun when my father interjected, \u201cSpare us your life philosophy.\u201d The wailing that arose might have been especially invented for the end of the world. Everything was burning. People, drapes, carpets, tablecloths \u2013 everything. In years to come, my brothers and I would pick through the blackened ruins. Haven\u2019t you ever noticed that only the poor have dirty hands?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie&#8217;s latest full-length poetry collection, Gun Metal Sky, is due in early 2021 from Thirty West Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guests looked on with complete bewilderment as my future parents exchanged what sounded like ironic wedding vows. Afterwards at the reception, a farmer sang about his favorite crop and then it was the best man\u2019s turn to speak. He had barely begun when my father interjected, \u201cSpare us your life philosophy.\u201d The wailing that [&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":[9795,6424,517,9798,9794,9797,6392,3921,191,1350,41,8898,2927,7349,9796,600,649,1244,9792,7128,1320,9185,9799,6252,9793],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-best-man","tag-bewilderment","tag-brothers","tag-carpets","tag-crop","tag-drapes","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-everything","tag-farmer","tag-father","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guests","tag-hands","tag-howie-good","tag-life-philosophy","tag-love","tag-parents","tag-people","tag-poverty","tag-reception","tag-ruins","tag-tablecloths","tag-the-poor","tag-turn","tag-wedding-vows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}