{"id":4553,"date":"2021-04-08T17:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2021-04-08T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:40:44","slug":"sailing-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/04\/08\/sailing-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing To America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There was something about the endless sky, gray and somber, and the ship\u2019s surging through the dark swirling waters of the Atlantic, that prompted Macbeth to worry about the past. The witches. The blood. The trouble that followed. Was there a route to forgiveness? People went down on their knees, didn\u2019t they? Could he hire someone to do it for him? He was still royalty, wasn\u2019t he? But the breeze was so soothing, the trouble, so remote. Surely Scotland was a memory best forgotten. Besides, in the distance, he could almost see, shining like a pardon, the Statue of Liberty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Linda Lowe<\/p>\n<p>Linda Lowe&#8217;s stories and poems have appeared in Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, Eunoia Review, Misfit Magazine, Six Sentences, and others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was something about the endless sky, gray and somber, and the ship\u2019s surging through the dark swirling waters of the Atlantic, that prompted Macbeth to worry about the past. The witches. The blood. The trouble that followed. Was there a route to forgiveness? People went down on their knees, didn\u2019t they? Could he hire [&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":[310,8928,281,3620,6206,10041,2628,41,4524,7920,10042,1159,10043,3457,350,7256,1603,1459,10044,3918,6332,1325],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-america","tag-atlantic","tag-blood","tag-breeze","tag-distance","tag-endless-sky","tag-forgiveness","tag-guest-contributor","tag-knees","tag-linda-lowe","tag-macbeth","tag-memory","tag-pardon","tag-route","tag-royalty","tag-sailing","tag-scotland","tag-ship","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-trouble","tag-waters","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","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=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4554,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}