{"id":5741,"date":"2023-08-10T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T03:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2023-08-10T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T03:34:08","slug":"crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/08\/10\/crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A skinny young guy, carrying a battered guitar case slung over his shoulder like a cotton picker\u2019s sack, went down to the crossroads to catch a ride. The folks at home wouldn\u2019t ever hear from him again. Rumors took the place of news \u2013  that he\u2019d been shot and killed over a gambling debt, that he\u2019d been lynched by a white mob, that he played guitar on the Chitlin\u2019 Circuit with such violent energy that gravestones fell over and broke and that\u2019s why now, every day around dawn, birds resume singing a centuries-old murder ballad specifically for our continued moral instruction.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie&#8217;s newest poetry collection, Heart-Shaped Hole, which also includes examples of his handmade collages, is available from Laughing Ronin Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skinny young guy, carrying a battered guitar case slung over his shoulder like a cotton picker\u2019s sack, went down to the crossroads to catch a ride. The folks at home wouldn\u2019t ever hear from him again. Rumors took the place of news \u2013 that he\u2019d been shot and killed over a gambling debt, that [&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":[1180,6273,12145,12141,12139,2106,290,12143,12144,12146,41,5204,12140,7593,134,7349,5447,12148,12147,3957,7922,2492,12142,2136],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-birds","tag-centuries","tag-chitlin-circuit","tag-cotton-picker","tag-crossroads","tag-dawn","tag-energy","tag-folks","tag-gambling-debt","tag-gravestones","tag-guest-contributor","tag-guitar","tag-guitar-case","tag-guy","tag-home","tag-howie-good","tag-mob","tag-moral-instruction","tag-murder-ballad","tag-news","tag-ride","tag-rumors","tag-sack","tag-shoulder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","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=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5742,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}