{"id":333,"date":"2025-10-20T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:32:20","slug":"this-creature-tanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/20\/this-creature-tanka\/","title":{"rendered":"This Creature Tanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This Creature Tanka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This creature is crawling viscera, leaving behind itself a trail of gastric acid &amp; liquid poop that it turns back often to lick up, crooning with pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its mouth, which is half its body, lets out an endless drone of not quite words that numbs the brain of whoever hears it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It moves so slowly that it looks like it\u2019s wobbling in place, but it never stops when it\u2019s chasing its chosen prey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a timid predator that mostly targets the weak &amp; defenseless, but nobody\u2019s safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You summoned it against your enemies &amp; now it will suck your bones clean, then crack them open for the marrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Sturgis Giteau<\/em><br><em>10\/20\/25<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Halloween Day 20<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This creature is crawling viscera&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[34,35,10,17],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-2025","tag-poetry","tag-tanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}