{"id":5721,"date":"2023-07-27T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T01:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2023-07-27T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T01:15:34","slug":"accompaniment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/07\/27\/accompaniment\/","title":{"rendered":"Accompaniment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Almost every morning<br \/>\nit\u2019s the same old ambient toss-up:<br \/>\n<em>Susumu Yokota<\/em> or <em>Lazybatusu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some days, neither flips his switch;<br \/>\nsome days: nothing but nothing. Silence.<br \/>\n(He neither needs nor wants either one.)<\/p>\n<p>Some days\u2014especially days he\u2019s up early\u2014<br \/>\nhe just sits and types, humming his own theme:<br \/>\nhe calls it Lazysusubatsumu Yakotoma.<\/p>\n<p>He hums and writes and writes again<br \/>\nuntil everything comes out right,<br \/>\nor his fingers start to bleed.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, though,<br \/>\nintent on his mission<br \/>\nhe encourages the hemorrhage.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s stumbled onto something good;<br \/>\nhe\u2019s just got to keep at it<br \/>\nuntil it sings on its own.<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 EGGS OVER TOKYO.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every morning it\u2019s the same old ambient toss-up: Susumu Yokota or Lazybatusu. Some days, neither flips his switch; some days: nothing but nothing. Silence. (He neither needs nor wants either one.) Some days\u2014especially days he\u2019s up early\u2014 he just sits and types, humming his own theme: he calls it Lazysusubatsumu Yakotoma. He hums and [&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":[8742,281,7022,2749,41,12105,2491,2921,2907,7494,1838,11060,8984,12104],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-accompaniment","tag-blood","tag-days","tag-fingers","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hemorrhage","tag-mission","tag-morning","tag-nothing","tag-ron-lavalette","tag-silence","tag-switch","tag-theme","tag-toss-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","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=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5722,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions\/5722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}