{"id":38267,"date":"2017-08-05T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38267"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:22:10","slug":"even-the-ghost-is-a-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/even-the-ghost-is-a-comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the Ghost is a Comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were playing a board game, Dixit, with our daughter and son-in-law, in which one player says a phrase to clue a picture card. The clue shouldn&#8217;t be too obvious, or too difficult. Our son-in-law said, &#8220;bad times.&#8221; Immediately the power went off and we were plunged into complete darkness. After a few seconds, the lights came back on.<\/p>\n<p>Years before, we were having one of our rare summer heat waves, and we had a fan on in our bedroom. I woke up with the distinct feeling that there was someone in the room with us. I told my sleeping husband about that sensation, even though there was obviously no one else there. A few seconds later, the fan clicked off. &#8220;Who did that?&#8221; asked my half-asleep husband. &#8220;Must have been that guy. Who else?&#8221; We were both in bed, across the room from the fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were playing a board game, Dixit, with our daughter and son-in-law, in which one player says a phrase to clue a picture card. The clue shouldn&#8217;t be too obvious, or too difficult. Our son-in-law said, &#8220;bad times.&#8221; Immediately the power went off and we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267","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\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38480,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38267\/revisions\/38480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}