{"id":549,"date":"2026-10-17T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:34:02","slug":"on-an-old-woodcut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/17\/on-an-old-woodcut\/","title":{"rendered":"On an Old Woodcut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On an Old Woodcut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The preacher doles damnation<br>to sheep outside the flock<br>who ramble where they will<br>and crop the sweetest grass.<br>But every leaf&#8217;s a sin,<br>their pleasures lying phantoms\u2014<br>strays caught in brambles,<br>to be torn by lurking fangs.<br>The huddled worshippers nod,<br>shudder, and murmur amens<br>on the stale indoors air,<br>bleat psalms of protection.<br>Behind each shoulder stands, unseen,<br>the skeleton they will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em><em>Thomas Gorn<\/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 16<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preacher doles damnation \/ to sheep outside the flock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-549","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\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}