{"id":4966,"date":"2022-02-19T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T21:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2022-02-19T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T21:15:02","slug":"lariateer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/02\/19\/lariateer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lariateer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When he finally finishes his regular morning exercise, he considers going back through his earliest journals and numbering the pages but\u2014smart as he is\u2014he knows he can\u2019t count that high. He thinks about all the pens he\u2019s ever used, tries to calculate how many oceans of ink he\u2019s expended; imagines uncurling his cursive and deconstructing his print, laying out all of his pen strokes end-to-end and seeing just how many times the line would circle the globe, or if maybe it would form a lifeline out into space to lasso the moon or play jump rope with Mars.<br \/>\n <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>From Guest Contributor Ron. Lavalette<\/p>\n<p>Ron.\u2019s debut chapbook, Fallen Away (Finishing Line Press), is now available at all standard outlets. Many of his published works can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/eggsovertokyo.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EGGS OVER TOKYO<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he finally finishes his regular morning exercise, he considers going back through his earliest journals and numbering the pages but\u2014smart as he is\u2014he knows he can\u2019t count that high. He thinks about all the pens he\u2019s ever used, tries to calculate how many oceans of ink he\u2019s expended; imagines uncurling his cursive and deconstructing [&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":[3351,7839,41,2909,3641,10778,10775,10777,1034,2044,340,10774,2618,6383,10776,3969,6640,7494,25],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cursive","tag-globe","tag-guest-contributor","tag-ink","tag-journals","tag-jump-rope","tag-lariateer","tag-lifeline","tag-line","tag-mars","tag-moon","tag-morning-exercise","tag-oceans","tag-pages","tag-pen-strokes","tag-pens","tag-print","tag-ron-lavalette","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}