{"id":5784,"date":"2023-09-08T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T00:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2023-09-08T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T00:51:30","slug":"dead-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/09\/08\/dead-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was still in my twenties. A woman at the bar grabbed my arm and asked for my help. But I also would have rather done the tying than be the one tied up. Faraway in time, my doctor was phoning me with the results of the biopsy. I had what he called \u201can oddball cancer.\u201d Of course, I did. What other kind would a poet have? The woman, her back now to me, was singing along with the jukebox about all the lonely people, a small, crumpled sound like foul dead flower water at the bottom of a vase.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie&#8217;s newest poetry collection, Heart-Shaped Hole, is available from Laughing Ronin Press. He co-edits the online journal UnLost, dedicated to found poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was still in my twenties. A woman at the bar grabbed my arm and asked for my help. But I also would have rather done the tying than be the one tied up. Faraway in time, my doctor was phoning me with the results of the biopsy. I had what he called \u201can oddball [&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":[2135,2776,214,12220,6050,1191,999,1082,2963,41,6691,7349,7233,1244,3513,6372,2914,1109,12218,12219,12221,177,2382],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arm","tag-back","tag-bar","tag-biopsy","tag-bottom","tag-cancer","tag-dead","tag-doctor","tag-flowers","tag-guest-contributor","tag-help","tag-howie-good","tag-jukebox","tag-people","tag-poet","tag-results","tag-sound","tag-time","tag-twenties","tag-tying","tag-vase","tag-water","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","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=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}