{"id":4678,"date":"2021-07-14T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2021-07-14T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:50:20","slug":"in-which-i-confront-name-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/07\/14\/in-which-i-confront-name-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Confront Name Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The sun was just a faint red ember in an ashen sky when I stepped onto the swaying boat. \u201cA poet,\u201d as Paul Celan observed before his second suicide attempt, \u201cis a pirate.\u201d I felt a kind of guilty freedom to be maneuvering the boat above the rush-hour streets. If only I had had a Jolly Roger! Behind the boat, I pulled a net that was soon full of strange new words for things. My pursuers cursed and cried and complained bitterly of fatigue and stress and vast distances. \u201cOh yeah?\u201d I said. \u201cTry going through life as a Howard.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including most recently Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was just a faint red ember in an ashen sky when I stepped onto the swaying boat. \u201cA poet,\u201d as Paul Celan observed before his second suicide attempt, \u201cis a pirate.\u201d I felt a kind of guilty freedom to be maneuvering the boat above the rush-hour streets. If only I had had 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":[1460,10274,9871,10273,1864,41,7349,10272,5567,6046,3513,7178,2528,4979,1736,5100,2413,10271,1531,37],"class_list":["post-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-boat","tag-distances","tag-ember","tag-fatigue","tag-freedom","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-jolly-roger","tag-name","tag-net","tag-poet","tag-pursuers","tag-regret","tag-rush-hour","tag-sky","tag-streets","tag-stress","tag-suicide-attempt","tag-sun","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678","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=4678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4678\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}