{"id":1789,"date":"2014-09-05T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T03:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threecolordisasters.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2017-06-03T08:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T22:49:16","slug":"51-at-the-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"#51: At The Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edited June 3 2017<\/p>\n<p>I snaked the chain through the handles, slipped on the lock, threw it shut. Faces on the glass fists mouths silent shouts eye whites. A policeman came to me. Looked at the doors, the chain, the lock. <\/p>\n<p>Looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think you&#8217;re doing?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>I slipped the stiletto point into the flesh under his jaw. I looked into his eyes as he looked into mine with that mild surprise they all show. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think I&#8217;m doing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><del>I snaked the chain through the handles, slipped on the lock, threw it shut. Faces on the glass beating fists torn mouths silent shouts eye whites. A policeman came to me. Looked at the doors, chain, lock. Looked at me.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>&#8220;What do you think you&#8217;re doing?&#8221; he asked.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>I slipped the stiletto point into the flesh under his jaw, tickled deep. Blood pumped in spastic bursts. I looked into his eyes as he looked into mine with that sense of mild surprise they all show. Gently, I took his face in my hand.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><del>&#8220;What do you think I&#8217;m doing?&#8221;<\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited June 3 2017 I snaked the chain through the handles, slipped on the lock, threw it shut. Faces on the glass fists mouths silent shouts eye whites. A policeman came to me. Looked at the doors, the chain, the lock. Looked at me. &#8220;What do you think you&#8217;re doing?&#8221; he asked. I slipped the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/?p=1789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#51: At The Mall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abnormal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}