{"id":393,"date":"2017-01-02T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2017-01-02T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T15:25:05","slug":"appointment-in-samarra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/02\/appointment-in-samarra\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment in Samarra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Appointment in Samarra<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The Grim Reaper<br \/>\nis my guardian angel<br \/>\nsaving me 1000 times<br \/>\nfrom certain death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">No doubt the times she<br \/>\nlifted me from danger<br \/>\nmeant the saving of some<br \/>\nother neglected life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Her soft touch<br \/>\nsends exquisite pain<br \/>\nradiating through my body<br \/>\npromising that final ecstasy<br \/>\nwhen the church bells will ring<br \/>\nand the veil will be lifted<br \/>\nand we embrace at last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 125%; font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211;Bill Stifler, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appointment in Samarra The Grim Reaper is my guardian angel saving me 1000 times from certain death. No doubt the times she lifted me from danger meant the saving of some other neglected life. Her soft touch sends exquisite pain radiating through my body promising that final ecstasy when the church bells will ring and [&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-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tPlD-6l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billstifler.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}