{"id":158,"date":"2014-03-09T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2014-03-09T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:33:12","slug":"crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Crucible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140309-141356.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140309-141356.jpg\" alt=\"20140309-141356.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deck door creaks, then squishes closed.<br \/>\nAnkle&#8217;s eye view is all that&#8217;s granted as,<br \/>\nslipshod, slipper-shod, he shuffles over.<br \/>\nTonight? We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Hooded yet, I feel the tickle of mouse feet,<br \/>\nsignaling its leaving, its leavings<br \/>\na part of once and future meals.<br \/>\nUnseen? We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Undraped now, I stretch, yawn, maw wide.<br \/>\nFresh fuel courses the chill and empty veins.<br \/>\nI hiss, bleed briefly; then spark fully awake.<br \/>\nWarming to task.<\/p>\n<p>Steel marrowed bones, unkempt, charred black<br \/>\nfrom too much use, too little care,<br \/>\nprepare my brand, sear stripe.<br \/>\nBar-B!<\/p>\n<p>Pale, pink pocked, round, and soft,<br \/>\nthey arrive &#8212; my evening&#8217;s guests.<br \/>\nSmooth skin now scarred, scorched.<br \/>\nLethally? We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Marked, I bid them &#8216;adieu&#8217;. Innocents no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deck door creaks, then squishes closed. Ankle&#8217;s eye view is all that&#8217;s granted as, slipshod, slipper-shod, he shuffles over. Tonight? We&#8217;ll see. Hooded yet, I feel the tickle of mouse feet, signaling its leaving, its leavings a part of once and future meals. Unseen? We&#8217;ll see. Undraped now, I stretch, yawn, maw wide. Fresh fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidhowardpsychologist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}