{"id":4890,"date":"2021-12-14T18:55:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T01:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2021-12-14T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T01:55:02","slug":"thoughts-and-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/12\/14\/thoughts-and-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts And Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Small furry animals have crawled out of their holes for a look. Such sights! Smashed-in skulls and severed feet and angels covered in blood. Like a nasty drunk, God has been exceptionally belligerent of late. A cadaverous woman in blue scrubs who says her name is April asks, \u201cOn a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest, how severe is your pain?\u201d Strangers on social media offer thoughts and prayers. Even then, the leaves on trees instantly wither as a burning airship passes overhead. My wife refuses a ride. We cling together just like the words in a poem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is the author of Failed Haiku,  a poetry collection that is the co-winner of the 2021 Grey Book Press Chapbook Contest. It is scheduled for publication in summer 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small furry animals have crawled out of their holes for a look. Such sights! Smashed-in skulls and severed feet and angels covered in blood. Like a nasty drunk, God has been exceptionally belligerent of late. A cadaverous woman in blue scrubs who says her name is April asks, \u201cOn a scale of 1-10, with 1 [&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":[10632,520,1709,10630,281,1331,2087,108,41,3075,7349,2658,6630,1504,6988,7922,4154,10631,4974,5408,2009,10629,675,153,2382,37],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-airship","tag-angels","tag-animals","tag-belligerent","tag-blood","tag-drunk","tag-feet","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-holes","tag-howie-good","tag-leaves","tag-look","tag-pain","tag-poem","tag-ride","tag-scale","tag-scrubs","tag-skulls","tag-social-media","tag-strangers","tag-thoughts-and-prayers","tag-trees","tag-wife","tag-woman","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","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=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}