{"id":5137,"date":"2022-06-16T18:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T01:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:16:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T01:16:30","slug":"family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2022\/06\/16\/family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Robots Contest Entry:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was born in the rain and dark. \u201cCure me or kill me,\u201d I begged the doctors in attendance. But apparently only when silent was I able to be heard. I\u2019d been assembled by someone who couldn\u2019t be bothered to read the assembly instructions. Seventy years later, I look in the mirror and see bits and pieces of a stranger\u2019s face \u2013 a long, fleshy nose, protuberant eyes, a domelike Shakespearean forehead. My now grown children stand well off to the side, uncertain whether to huddle or flee. As I tentatively approach, I clutch a rose, shoulder high like a dagger. <\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie&#8217;s books include the prose poetry collection THOUGHT CRIMES, scheduled to be published in fall 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots Contest Entry: I was born in the rain and dark. \u201cCure me or kill me,\u201d I begged the doctors in attendance. But apparently only when silent was I able to be heard. I\u2019d been assembled by someone who couldn\u2019t be bothered to read the assembly instructions. Seventy years later, I look in the mirror [&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":[11028,11086,8113,113,2680,11030,1853,429,2838,11027,2748,9684,7349,1347,2211,4880,1414,651,11041,5782,2656],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-assembly-instructions","tag-attendance","tag-bits","tag-children","tag-contest-submission","tag-dagger","tag-dark","tag-doctors","tag-face","tag-family-tree","tag-forehead","tag-guest-conributor","tag-howie-good","tag-mirror","tag-nose","tag-pieces","tag-rain","tag-robots","tag-robots-contest","tag-rose","tag-stranger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5138,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}