{"id":276,"date":"2025-10-02T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T20:53:34","slug":"a-haunting-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/02\/a-haunting-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"a haunting (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>a haunting<\/strong><br><br>a bright morning<br>in early fall,<br>i turned off news<br>of portland and gaza,<br>gathered gloves and shears<br>and stepped outside.<br>on the lawn<br>a rabbit lay,<br>hurt or sick.<br>it didn&#8217;t run<br>from me, barely<br>raised its head<br>to look.<br>i wasn&#8217;t sure<br>how to certainly<br>and swiftly<br>release it,<br>and i didn&#8217;t.<br><br>thru the day<br>its position shifted<br>across the yard<br>following shade,<br>moving only<br>when i wasn&#8217;t looking.<br>i didn&#8217;t see<br>when it left.<br><br>it never left.<br><br>but it disappeared.<br><br><em>\u2014 sylvester hobson<\/em><br><em>2025 october 2<\/em><br><br><em>halloween day 2<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a bright morning \/ in early fall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}