{"id":4699,"date":"2021-07-28T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2021-07-29T09:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:19:32","slug":"declaration-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/07\/28\/declaration-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration Of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The noon sun was a blazing red ember in an ashen sky. It was all anyone could talk about. Even the dogs of the kingdom were going crazy, whining and running in circles and hypersalivating. Meanwhile, on the birthing table, the Red Queen, her knees up, her legs spread apart, her multiple chins trembling, pushed and pushed and then pushed again. Music \u2013 Wagner or perhaps Sousa, something rousing \u2013 came thundering out of her. She was like a little brass ensemble playing mightily. The royal physician remained strangely calm, as though thinking, \u201cOK, why not?\u201d Blood had never looked so red.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From 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 noon sun was a blazing red ember in an ashen sky. It was all anyone could talk about. Even the dogs of the kingdom were going crazy, whining and running in circles and hypersalivating. Meanwhile, on the birthing table, the Red Queen, her knees up, her legs spread apart, her multiple chins trembling, pushed [&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":[10314,281,10319,10316,2662,1265,10313,771,9871,41,7349,2787,963,5183,10320,10315,1736,10318,1531,10317,88],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birthing-table","tag-blood","tag-brass-ensemble","tag-chins","tag-circles","tag-crazy","tag-declaration","tag-dogs","tag-ember","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-kingdom","tag-music","tag-noon","tag-physician","tag-red-queen","tag-sky","tag-sousa","tag-sun","tag-wagner","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","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=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}