{"id":35127,"date":"2017-08-05T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35127"},"modified":"2017-08-12T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T01:18:56","slug":"terror-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/terror-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear the chilling sound of his voice<br \/>\nas I recognize behind me\u2013the<br \/>\ncold click-clack of the shotgun loading.<\/p>\n<p>Barely able to breathe, I lift my eyes from<br \/>\nthe plates in my hands to<br \/>\nsee his reflection, in the<br \/>\nwindow over the sink. I see his evil smirk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you ready to finish that fight now?\u201d<br \/>\nMy heart racing, electricity<br \/>\nsurging through my body, in slow<br \/>\nmotion, I turn to face him.<\/p>\n<p>Fear so intense I lose<br \/>\ncontrol of my body; seeing me<br \/>\nstanding in my own puddle, he<br \/>\nlaughs and walks out again.<\/p>\n<p>Humiliated and terrified, I<br \/>\ndrop to the floor and<br \/>\nweep for my babies, praying<br \/>\nthey will never know this terror.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 Kathleen J Kidder<br \/>\n8\/5\/2017 Hour Seven &#8211; Half Marathon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear the chilling sound of his voice as I recognize behind me\u2013the cold click-clack of the shotgun loading. Barely able to breathe, I lift my eyes from the plates in my hands to see his reflection, in the window over the sink. I see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44297,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127\/revisions\/44297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}