{"id":4974,"date":"2022-02-24T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T02:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2022-02-24T19:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T02:40:20","slug":"a-theory-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/02\/24\/a-theory-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Theory Of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The medical assistant asked in a flat, toneless bureaucratic voice how I would describe the pain. Stabbing? Aching? Sharp? Dull? She entered my answer on the form, but without showing any actual concern. A philosopher once said \u2013 or should have \u2013 that a society is only as just as its treatment of its most vulnerable members: the old, the sick, the poor, the institutionalized. Using a dropper, I strategically place .50 milliliters of Triple M tincture under my tongue. I wait fifteen, twenty minutes, and then gray-clad troops burst from the treeline with a rebel yell. The tongue is all muscle.<\/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 medical assistant asked in a flat, toneless bureaucratic voice how I would describe the pain. Stabbing? Aching? Sharp? Dull? She entered my answer on the form, but without showing any actual concern. A philosopher once said \u2013 or should have \u2013 that a society is only as just as its treatment of its most [&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":[4711,4163,10790,5546,41,7349,10786,1903,10785,10787,6040,1538,1504,5006,10793,654,10788,9799,10789,9646,10791,3370,9004,10792,6572,2362],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-answer","tag-concern","tag-dropper","tag-form","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-just","tag-justice","tag-medical-assistant","tag-members","tag-minutes","tag-muscle","tag-pain","tag-philosopher","tag-rebel-yell","tag-society","tag-the-old","tag-the-poor","tag-the-sick","tag-theory","tag-tincture","tag-tongue","tag-treatment","tag-treeline","tag-troops","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","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=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}