{"id":4571,"date":"2021-04-21T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2021-04-30T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T00:42:25","slug":"the-death-and-life-of-avant-garde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/04\/21\/the-death-and-life-of-avant-garde\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death And Life Of The Avant-Garde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When Franz K. was taken off the train in the middle of the night, he came to on a street of futuristic glass towers that, from an architectural perspective, were already pass\u00e9. \u201cWhat are those buildings?\u201d he asked his keeper, a tall, thin, priestly figure who emanated an aura of gentle authority. \u201cYou\u2019ll find out,\u201d the keeper said, smiling. He never did. By the time the sun rose, he was tied to a post, watching in terror the firing squad assemble. It was sort of like avant-garde cinema where a series of incidents doesn\u2019t necessarily add up to a plot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie Good is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including most recently Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing) and The Bad News First (Kung Fu Treachery Press).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Franz K. was taken off the train in the middle of the night, he came to on a street of futuristic glass towers that, from an architectural perspective, were already pass\u00e9. \u201cWhat are those buildings?\u201d he asked his keeper, a tall, thin, priestly figure who emanated an aura of gentle authority. \u201cYou\u2019ll find out,\u201d [&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":[9739,2070,8652,3907,10083,295,2543,7885,2133,41,7349,10084,10081,2191,10080,4782,10082,6970,1971,1531,6610,34,2334],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aura","tag-authority","tag-avant-garde","tag-buildings","tag-cinema","tag-death","tag-figure","tag-firing-squad","tag-glass","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-incidents","tag-keeper","tag-life","tag-middle-of-the-night","tag-plot","tag-post","tag-series","tag-street","tag-sun","tag-terror","tag-towers","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","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=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}