{"id":4946,"date":"2022-02-03T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2022-02-03T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T01:49:48","slug":"unsolved-mysteries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/02\/03\/unsolved-mysteries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsolved Mysteries #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The unbalanced hostage-taker suddenly meekly surrendered to his Jewish hostages. A delegation of angels in a tree outside the synagogue hooted in derision and then rose into the sky and flapped away, leaving mysterious future gaps in the fossil record. In that instant, I became convinced of the essential stupidity of strictly adhering to any particular plan. And don\u2019t think I didn\u2019t know that, with my droopy face and drab old clothes, I looked like an unassimilable immigrant from a strange country \u2013 someplace dark and rainy and governed by contradiction, where there are no clues or, rather, only false ones.<\/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 in summer 2022.    <\/em>     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unbalanced hostage-taker suddenly meekly surrendered to his Jewish hostages. A delegation of angels in a tree outside the synagogue hooted in derision and then rose into the sky and flapped away, leaving mysterious future gaps in the fossil record. In that instant, I became convinced of the essential stupidity of strictly adhering to any [&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":[520,1328,10752,6461,3289,10746,10748,10750,10749,41,10744,10745,7349,308,7307,2763,1736,10751,10747,258,10743],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-angels","tag-clothes","tag-clues","tag-contradiction","tag-country","tag-delegation","tag-derision","tag-fossil-record","tag-gaps","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hostage-taker","tag-hostages","tag-howie-good","tag-immigrant","tag-instant","tag-plan","tag-sky","tag-stupidity","tag-synagogue","tag-tree","tag-unsolved-mysteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","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=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}