{"id":496,"date":"2026-10-06T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:24:13","slug":"ghosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/06\/ghosted\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ghosted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whose house was this?<br>I ought to know.<br>The knick-knacks,<br>the pictures on the wall,<br>the floorboards seem<br>like old friends<br>who&#8217;ve forgotten me\u2014no,<br>who&#8217;ve turned cold,<br>who look away.<br>The hall doesn&#8217;t return my footsteps.<br>the doorknob won&#8217;t take my hand.<br>And I don&#8217;t know where<br>I left my name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014 Carl Bettis<\/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 6<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose house was this? \/ I ought to know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-496","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\/496","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}