{"id":4916,"date":"2022-01-11T14:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:27:28","slug":"country-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/01\/11\/country-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A B-girl with sleepy, mud-colored eyes slipped onto the stool next to mine. \u201cI am here to entertain you,\u201d she said and then added as a tease, \u201cbut only during my shift.\u201d At least she wasn\u2019t the kind of woman who would refer to poetry as \u201cverse.\u201d  I conspicuously returned my attention to the ball game on the TV over the bar. She leaned in closer and started to stay something. I cut her off. It\u2019s not that I wasn\u2019t tempted; it\u2019s just that I\u2019m cautious. Prison workshops and small rural cemeteries are filled with men who should have been.<\/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 and scheduled for publication this summer. <\/em>     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A B-girl with sleepy, mud-colored eyes slipped onto the stool next to mine. \u201cI am here to entertain you,\u201d she said and then added as a tease, \u201cbut only during my shift.\u201d At least she wasn\u2019t the kind of woman who would refer to poetry as \u201cverse.\u201d I conspicuously returned my attention to the ball [&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":[6298,10695,214,10697,3289,7150,85,4731,10696,2264,9498,10694,723,8205,2382],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-attention","tag-ball-game","tag-bar","tag-cemeteries","tag-country","tag-men","tag-noir","tag-poetry","tag-prison-workshops","tag-shift","tag-stool","tag-tease","tag-tv","tag-verse","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","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=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}