{"id":4862,"date":"2021-11-22T18:19:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2021-11-22T18:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T01:19:42","slug":"crazy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/11\/22\/crazy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That\u2019s what he thought. Small balloon floated over his head with &#038;#%!@?; yet, he smiled at her with his lizard eyes\u2014his lips razor-thin, unable to utter the string of words that would sear the flesh off of her. He remembered a bible verse as a matter of reckoning the lies he listened to while sitting at that table. He thought about the sounds that kept him up half the night. Not new sounds in the farmhouse\u2014 no new sounds, except theirs, living in the thin cracks of ticking floorboards and plaster dust. He listened without making a sound.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor M.J. Iuppa<\/p>\n<p>M.J.\u2019s fifth full-length poetry collection The Weight of Air is forthcoming from Kelsay Books, May, 2022. For the past 33 years, she has lived on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario. Check out her blog: mjiuppa.blogspot.com for her musings on writing, sustainability &#038; life\u2019s stew.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s what he thought. Small balloon floated over his head with &#038;#%!@?; yet, he smiled at her with his lizard eyes\u2014his lips razor-thin, unable to utter the string of words that would sear the flesh off of her. He remembered a bible verse as a matter of reckoning the lies he listened to while sitting [&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":[5526,10579,3813,1265,1029,1143,813,3301,10581,1319,3705,10577,6657,10582,10580,6763,10578],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-balloon","tag-bible-verse","tag-cracks","tag-crazy","tag-curses","tag-dust","tag-farmhouse","tag-flesh","tag-flooboards","tag-lies","tag-lips","tag-lizard-eyes","tag-matter","tag-plaster","tag-reckoning","tag-sounds","tag-string-of-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","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=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}