{"id":373,"date":"2016-12-12T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2017-01-02T01:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T06:28:32","slug":"the-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/the-revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Revelation<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Last time it came in waves<br \/>\nof screams slipping into depths<br \/>\nimmeasurable, darkness smothering<br \/>\nhope and hate, love and larceny\u2014no<br \/>\nmatter\u2014only slow rocking time<br \/>\nremaining beneath a darkened sky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Then, a promise of fire, bright orange,<br \/>\nsuns exploding, the moon bloody, always<br \/>\nmore blood, the sacrifice of innocents,<br \/>\nfoolish lambs led to slaughter by wolves<br \/>\nrising out of the northern winter,<br \/>\nall promises forgotten\u2014or misremembered\u2014<br \/>\nthe abomination of desolation at last revealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Still, hope clings to flotsam carried on rivers<br \/>\nof fire, the rapture\u2019s final embrace carrying<br \/>\nthem to the promised land of gnashing teeth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8212; Bill Stifler, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revelation Last time it came in waves of screams slipping into depths immeasurable, darkness smothering hope and hate, love and larceny\u2014no matter\u2014only slow rocking time remaining beneath a darkened sky. Then, a promise of fire, bright orange, suns exploding, the moon bloody, always more blood, the sacrifice of innocents, foolish lambs led to slaughter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tPlD-61","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}