{"id":1727,"date":"2008-01-08T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/01\/08\/lawrence\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T18:31:00","slug":"lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/01\/08\/lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He stumbles out of the house and falls to his knees, wiping his hands over and over on his bloody jeans.  Smoke&#8217;s pouring out of the basement.  It smells of hickory, myrrh and scorched wiring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus, Lawrence,&#8221; says Marti, hollow around the eyes.  &#8220;Tell me what happened, give me some reason I don&#8217;t have to arrest you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t understand!&#8221; says Lawrence.  &#8220;The spell went all wrong&#8211;those aren&#8217;t them in there.  Those aren&#8217;t my girls!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not anymore,&#8221; says Marti sadly, and pulls out his cuffs.<\/p>\n<p>From the house across the street, the doppelgang watches, hair in pigtails, eyes like wounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday a man was arrested for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080108\/NEWS01\/801080368\/-1\/LIFE04\">murdering his stepdaughters in some kind of ritual<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a horrible story.  It also sounds way too much like a Clive Barker ripoff novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He stumbles out of the house and falls to his knees, wiping his hands over and over on his bloody jeans. Smoke&#8217;s pouring out of the basement. It smells of hickory, myrrh and scorched wiring. &#8220;Jesus, Lawrence,&#8221; says Marti, hollow around the eyes. &#8220;Tell me what happened, give me some reason I don&#8217;t have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitterness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}