{"id":6350,"date":"2025-01-22T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2025-01-22T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:02:30","slug":"the-dark-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/01\/22\/the-dark-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If I look different, taller or fitter, it may be because a kind of prisoner swap has taken place. Somehow I\u2019ve wriggled out from under the extreme judgments of a cold, tyrannical god. I\u2019m still me but not the same. My failures suddenly seem less painful, viewable in retrospect as a series of valiant gestures against the authority of received narratives. Indigenous names for places have been restored, our pale winter bodies renourished. And so we lie down together, she and I, consumers of dreams, while angels dabble in the dark arts and the sniper kneels at the corner window. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is author of the poetry book, The Dark, available from Sacred Parasite, which will also publish his book, Akimbo, in 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I look different, taller or fitter, it may be because a kind of prisoner swap has taken place. Somehow I\u2019ve wriggled out from under the extreme judgments of a cold, tyrannical god. I\u2019m still me but not the same. My failures suddenly seem less painful, viewable in retrospect as a series of valiant gestures [&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":[520,2070,6801,7317,13157,13153,1211,6492,7211,108,41,7349,13155,6891,13156,7915,1294,13154,7871,731],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-angels","tag-authority","tag-bodies","tag-consumers","tag-corner-window","tag-dark-arts","tag-dreams","tag-failures","tag-gestures","tag-god","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-judgments","tag-names","tag-narratives","tag-places","tag-prisoner","tag-prisoner-swap","tag-sniper","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","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=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}