{"id":6652,"date":"2025-10-27T18:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:58:47","slug":"a-mere-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/10\/27\/a-mere-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mere Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the end I ran away, fleeing what I am guilty of. As a young man I committed those crimes, telling myself orders were orders, that we were the justified, dealing out punishments fit for imagined crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, older, reflecting on how my past moulded me, I return to the scene of my crimes. German and Jew, I embraced one me and snuffed out the other. Is this survivor guilt? Or am I finally realizing and admitting my evil past?<\/p>\n<p>I wander the compound, begging spectres for a forgiveness that will never come. Are they the ghost, or am I?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Tim Law<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end I ran away, fleeing what I am guilty of. As a young man I committed those crimes, telling myself orders were orders, that we were the justified, dealing out punishments fit for imagined crimes. Now, older, reflecting on how my past moulded me, I return to the scene of my crimes. German [&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":[8088,11669,2698,328,2628,5382,68,41,5387,13649,8189,1515,13066,8464,5689,13651,13650,13395,6619],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-compound","tag-crimes","tag-end","tag-evil","tag-forgiveness","tag-german","tag-ghost","tag-guest-contributor","tag-jew","tag-justified","tag-orders","tag-past","tag-punishments","tag-scene","tag-shell","tag-spectre","tag-survivor-guilt","tag-tim-law","tag-young-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652","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=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}