{"id":4749,"date":"2021-09-06T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2021-09-06T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T04:29:09","slug":"rider-of-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/09\/06\/rider-of-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Rider Of The Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daylight spills over the trees, onto bones in our yard. A wind rattles the forest. We tense with fear. Before, we tended gardens, chopped wood, prepared for the next season. Now, we turn our homestead into a church, with crucifixes everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The minister won\u2019t come.<\/p>\n<p>We string garlic from the eaves, board our windows.<\/p>\n<p>The wind steals our breath.<\/p>\n<p>Father announces a plan. At dusk, as bait, I stand among animal and human bones. Behind me, through the cracked door, father points his rifle, waiting to shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the house, mother mourns her dead children.<\/p>\n<p>Overhead, something rides the wind.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Russell Richardson<\/p>\n<p>Russell has written and published many short stories, illustrated a book of poetry, and created children&#8217;s books to benefit kids with cancer. His YA novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/levelupanddie.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Level Up and Die!<\/a> was published in April of 2021. He lives with his wife and sons in Binghamton, NY, the carousel capital of the world.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight spills over the trees, onto bones in our yard. A wind rattles the forest. We tense with fear. Before, we tended gardens, chopped wood, prepared for the next season. Now, we turn our homestead into a church, with crucifixes everywhere. The minister won\u2019t come. We string garlic from the eaves, board our windows. The [&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":[9193,5171,2751,2520,1738,10405,7536,1001,10407,1350,899,812,9540,10406,41,4662,2717,1743,2763,6000,2745,10404,4065,675,275,4106,3621],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-animal","tag-bait","tag-bones","tag-breath","tag-church","tag-crucifixes","tag-daylight","tag-dusk","tag-eaves","tag-father","tag-fear","tag-forest","tag-gardens","tag-garlic","tag-guest-contributor","tag-homestead","tag-human","tag-minister","tag-plan","tag-rider","tag-rifle","tag-russell-richardson","tag-season","tag-trees","tag-wind","tag-wood","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","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=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}