{"id":4629,"date":"2021-06-08T17:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T00:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2021-06-08T17:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T00:33:43","slug":"cursed-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/06\/08\/cursed-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursed Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dark ripples spread across the surface as I wade into the water. I hold my breath and dive. To my surprise, the sword lies among the weeds, quite within reach. It\u2019s mine. I chuckle with joy. I kick my legs harder, needing to go only a few inches deeper, but I can\u2019t reach it. No matter how long I swim, I can\u2019t grab the sword. I can\u2019t hold my breath anymore. I struggle to the surface, but I\u2019m yanked down. I tear at the weeds tangling my feet, but, as I sink, all I see is the sword\u2019s gleaming wink.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Yukari Kousaka<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Toshiya Kamei<\/p>\n<p>Born in Osaka in 2001, Yukari Kousaka is a Japanese poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Translated by Toshiya Kamei, Yukari\u2019s writings have appeared in The Crypt, New World Writing, and The Wondrous Real Magazine, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark ripples spread across the surface as I wade into the water. I hold my breath and dive. To my surprise, the sword lies among the weeds, quite within reach. It\u2019s mine. I chuckle with joy. I kick my legs harder, needing to go only a few inches deeper, but I can\u2019t reach it. No [&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":[2520,10191,2087,7616,3102,2837,10192,4567,5199,3935,120,177,5377,3266],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-breath","tag-dive","tag-feet","tag-inches","tag-joy","tag-legs","tag-reach","tag-ripples","tag-surface","tag-surprise","tag-sword","tag-water","tag-weeds","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","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=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}