{"id":490,"date":"2026-10-05T11:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:20:40","slug":"dead-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/05\/dead-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dead Blessings<\/strong><br><br>Damp night. At the last house standing<br>in a decaying neighborhood,<br>a dead goddess looks in the window.<br>A drunk old man (even the hairs<br>on the backs of his hands are white)<br>looks out. He sings her part of a song<br>his grandmother learned as a child.<br>It makes him feel young. It makes him think<br>he keeps the dead goddess company.<br>He closes his eyes for her blessing.<br><br>\u2014\u00a0<em>Mort Duffy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Halloween 2026, day 5<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damp night. At the last house standing \/ in a decaying neighborhood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[63,10],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2026","tag-halloween-2026","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}