{"id":5063,"date":"2022-04-28T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2022-04-28T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:39:14","slug":"so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/04\/28\/so-what\/","title":{"rendered":"So What"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Everything appears gray or white, and after only a few days, I start to miss seeing things that are green. The people I depend on for advice don\u2019t want to talk about it or even acknowledge a problem exists. I scan the morning headlines. Bosnians are still finding in woods and fields and under building rubble bodies from the genocide their leaders claim never happened. A year passes, two. The dentist bangs on my tooth. \u201cThat hurt?\u201d he asks. I smell grass, hear birds chirp. It hurts. So what? A bird hasn\u2019t an arm but the continent of the sky.<\/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>Everything appears gray or white, and after only a few days, I start to miss seeing things that are green. The people I depend on for advice don\u2019t want to talk about it or even acknowledge a problem exists. I scan the morning headlines. Bosnians are still finding in woods and fields and under building [&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":[8663,2135,1180,6801,10977,1421,10978,78,3921,1315,521,529,9212,268,1724,7349,9607,5895,5481,1736,5999,1053,817,3995],"class_list":["post-5063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-advice","tag-arm","tag-birds","tag-bodies","tag-bosnians","tag-colors","tag-continent","tag-dentist","tag-everything","tag-fields","tag-genocide","tag-grass","tag-gray","tag-green","tag-headlines","tag-howie-good","tag-leaders","tag-problem","tag-rubble","tag-sky","tag-tooth","tag-white","tag-woods","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063","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=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}