{"id":326,"date":"2025-10-17T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:45:15","slug":"the-ghouls-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/17\/the-ghouls-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghouls (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Ghouls<\/strong><br><br>In recent centuries, the eaters<br>of the dead have shrunk in numbers:<br>cremation, embalming fluids<br>poisoning their meals, our squeam<br>their famine. Like the drought-parched<br>begging for rain, they pray<br>to their vulture-headed gods<br>for a good old-fashioned plague.<br>Or a civil war would work\u2014<br>chaos, mass casualties.<br>Their gods listen. Fatter<br>years for ghouls are coming.<br>At least our politicians serve,<br>if ignorantly, one needy constituency.<br><br><em>\u2014 Ian Erinson<\/em><br><em>17 October 2025<\/em><br><br><em>Halloween Day 17<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent centuries, the eaters \/ of the dead have shrunk in numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[34,35,10],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}