{"id":5904,"date":"2024-01-09T17:27:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:27:51","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/01\/09\/in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday, you\u2019ll have been dead a week. I sit at the kitchen table, laptop open in front of me, doing what I think you\u2019d be doing in my place, writing something. You were a poet, a real one, a soldier with a flower in his helmet. I\u2019m hunting and pecking when I suddenly hear the tinkling of Tibetan prayer bells. Five seconds \u2013 10 max \u2013 pass before I realize it\u2019s the new ringtone on my phone. A prim female voice announces, \u201cUnknown caller.\u201d I always just assumed Death would have the surly demeanor of the lunch ladies in a school cafeteria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Howie&#8217;s newest poetry collection, Frowny Face, a mix of his prose poems and collages, is now available from Redhawk Publications He co-edits the online journal UnLost, dedicated to found poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, you\u2019ll have been dead a week. I sit at the kitchen table, laptop open in front of me, doing what I think you\u2019d be doing in my place, writing something. You were a poet, a real one, a soldier with a flower in his helmet. I\u2019m hunting and pecking when I suddenly hear the [&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":[295,4155,41,11781,7349,6769,3961,12415,3312,7787,3513,8387,12416,2166,3114,12414,2362,8096],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-death","tag-flower","tag-guest-contributor","tag-helmet","tag-howie-good","tag-kitchen-table","tag-laptop","tag-lunch-ladies","tag-phone","tag-place","tag-poet","tag-ringtone","tag-school-cafeteria","tag-soldier","tag-sunday","tag-tibetan-prayer-bells","tag-voice","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","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=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}