{"id":4537,"date":"2021-03-29T18:09:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2021-03-29T18:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:09:38","slug":"a-grass-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/03\/29\/a-grass-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grass Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After my death, one half of my soul rose to the heavens, and the other half slept underground. My blood seeped into the roots of weeds. When the village held a festival, my daughter cut the grass and wove my halved soul into a dog-shaped chugou. She placed me beneath my husband\u2019s bed. After a while, my husband tossed about and moaned in sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t kill me!\u201d he screamed.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter stood over him and flung down her hatchet. His blood dripped through the mattress and onto the floor. I chuckled as I learned who had murdered me while asleep.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Yuki Fuwa<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Toshiya Kamei<\/p>\n<p>Yuki Fuwa is a Japanese writer from Osaka. In 2020, she was named a finalist for the first Reiwa Novel Prize. In the same year, her short story was a finalist in the first Kaguya SF Contest. Translated by Toshiya Kamei, Yuki\u2019s short fiction has appeared in New World Writing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my death, one half of my soul rose to the heavens, and the other half slept underground. My blood seeped into the roots of weeds. When the village held a festival, my daughter cut the grass and wove my halved soul into a dog-shaped chugou. She placed me beneath my husband\u2019s bed. After a [&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":[2501,281,10013,1352,295,213,4363,3309,529,41,9868,7435,1285,2433,7654,1044,1004,9650,210,5377,10012],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bed","tag-blood","tag-chugou","tag-daughter","tag-death","tag-dog","tag-festival","tag-floor","tag-grass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hatchet","tag-heavens","tag-husband","tag-mattress","tag-roots","tag-sleep","tag-soul","tag-toshiya-kamei","tag-village","tag-weeds","tag-yuki-fuwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","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=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}