{"id":4485,"date":"2021-02-19T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T01:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T01:48:55","slug":"dreams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/02\/19\/dreams-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;What&#8217;d you expect? I am who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a scowl she looked down at him sprawled across the weathered porch, a cigar box guitar across his lap. He knew to say more now would elicit a sharp slap across his perspiring jaw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You got chores, Bo. Get off your butt and get out in that field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slowly he rose, put the instrument down gingerly, and peered at the rich delta loam between his toes. He reached for a gunny sack and turned toward endless rows of cotton shimmering in the heat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna be somebody, he thought. I am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Fred Miller<\/p>\n<p>Fred is a California writer. Over fifty of his stories and poems have appeared in publications around the world in the past ten years. Many may be seen on his <a href=\"https:\/\/pookah1943.wordpress.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;d you expect? I am who I am.&#8221; With a scowl she looked down at him sprawled across the weathered porch, a cigar box guitar across his lap. He knew to say more now would elicit a sharp slap across his perspiring jaw. &#8220;You got chores, Bo. Get off your butt and get out in [&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":[6792,1302,9880,4028,9882,1211,1676,9878,41,5204,9884,1268,9881,6816,2835,9883,3280,9885,9879,1849],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-butt","tag-chores","tag-cigar-box","tag-cotton","tag-delta","tag-dreams","tag-field","tag-fred-miller","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guitar","tag-gunny-sack","tag-heat","tag-instrument","tag-jaw","tag-lap","tag-loam","tag-porch","tag-rows","tag-scowl","tag-slap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","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=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}