{"id":534,"date":"2026-10-17T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:13:55","slug":"ghosts-i-have-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/ghosts-i-have-known\/","title":{"rendered":"ghosts i have known"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ghosts i have known<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">dead rat on the sidewalk,<br>bloody raked sides.<br>peaceful repose? hardly.<br>the smell of fear<br>lingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em><em>sylvester hobson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>form: the\u00a0<\/em>tamba,<em>\u00a05 lines with a syllable pattern of 6\/4\/6\/4\/2<\/em>.<em> my own invention.<\/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 12<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dead rat on the sidewalk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[63,69,10,67],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2026","tag-halloween-2026","tag-poetic-forms","tag-poetry","tag-tamba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}