{"id":339,"date":"2025-10-21T12:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:55:38","slug":"we-are-among-us-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/21\/we-are-among-us-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Among Us (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We Are Among Us<\/strong><br><br>Incubi and succubi<br>prowl dance clubs, country clubs,<br>book clubs, churches.<br>They tempt us not<br>with groin or breast or tongue<br>but with tiny mirrors<br>the size of a thumb,<br>from which we peek out at ourselves<br>with eyes amazed and in love.<br>Who can resist their own regard?<br>We follow, heedless of the years<br>of rueful reflections to come.<br><br><em>\u2014 Thomas Gorn<\/em><br><em>October 21st, 2025<\/em><br><br><em>Halloween Day 21<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Are Among Us Incubi and succubiprowl dance clubs, country clubs,book clubs, churches.They tempt us notwith groin or breast or tonguebut with tiny mirrorsthe size of a thumb,from which we peek out at ourselveswith eyes amazed and in love.Who can resist their own regard?We follow, heedless of the yearsof rueful reflections to come. \u2014 Thomas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/21\/we-are-among-us-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;We Are Among Us (poem)&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-339","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\/339","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}