{"id":4764,"date":"2021-09-14T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T23:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:51:03","slug":"napoleon-in-rags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/09\/14\/napoleon-in-rags\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon In Rags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was the season of mists. He had been forced by necessity to pawn his one good pair of pants. Now that he couldn\u2019t confidently appear in public, he sat sulking in his underwear at the kitchen table. He couldn\u2019t remember, Josephine wasn\u2019t there to remind him, what it was like to live in anticipation of making love. Adversaries swooped around him like moon-crazed bats. If he had had a suicide pill, he might have taken it. The world only ever really pays attention when there is a panic or a traveling guillotine or when all the soldiers have syphilis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author most recently of the poetry collection Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the season of mists. He had been forced by necessity to pawn his one good pair of pants. Now that he couldn\u2019t confidently appear in public, he sat sulking in his underwear at the kitchen table. He couldn\u2019t remember, Josephine wasn\u2019t there to remind him, what it was like to live in anticipation [&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":[10416,6293,6298,8734,41,7754,7349,10415,6769,600,10412,340,321,6357,10413,1267,3974,8927,4065,1679,10417,973,10414,3880],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-adversaries","tag-anticipation","tag-attention","tag-bats","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guillotine","tag-howie-good","tag-josephine","tag-kitchen-table","tag-love","tag-mists","tag-moon","tag-napoleon","tag-necessity","tag-pair-of-pants","tag-panic","tag-public","tag-rags","tag-season","tag-soldiers","tag-suicide-pill","tag-syphilis","tag-underwear","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","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=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}