{"id":4871,"date":"2021-11-30T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2021-11-30T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T00:24:19","slug":"bruno-schulz-on-the-street-of-crocodiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/11\/30\/bruno-schulz-on-the-street-of-crocodiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Schulz On The Street Of Crocodiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The pills I take at night to get to sleep leave me feeling dazed all morning. I stare stupidly at the white screen of my laptop while rubbing my head in a forlorn attempt to stimulate the language center of the brain. I think once again of Bruno Schulz. Only the first sentence of the novel he was writing when he was murdered survives: Mother awakened me in the morning, saying, \u201cJoseph, the Messiah is near&#8230;\u201d A Gestapo officer shot him down in the street in broad daylight. It was a kind of hobby, to be honest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author most recently of the poetry collections Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing) and Famous Long Ago (Laughing Ronin Press).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pills I take at night to get to sleep leave me feeling dazed all morning. I stare stupidly at the white screen of my laptop while rubbing my head in a forlorn attempt to stimulate the language center of the brain. I think once again of Bruno Schulz. Only the first sentence of 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":[8152,667,6007,10594,10592,5383,10596,41,5364,3920,7349,10593,3961,2209,2921,52,2155,3534,5029,7645,1971,10595],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-attempt","tag-brain","tag-broad-daylight","tag-bruno-schulz","tag-crocodiles","tag-gestapo","tag-gestapo-officer","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hobby","tag-honest","tag-howie-good","tag-language-center","tag-laptop","tag-messiah","tag-morning","tag-murder","tag-novel","tag-pills","tag-screen","tag-sentence","tag-street","tag-the-street-of-crocodiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","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=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}