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\u00a0The sheriff stared looking at the condemned man. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0He stared back at the sheriff, his cold eyes gazing through him, chilling his blood. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can’t till she gets here.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0he coldly replied to the sheriff. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Till who gets here?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just have to wait and see<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Well we don’t have time to wait, let’s get on with it<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The black hidden executioner slipped the noose over his neck<\/span><\/p>\n and positioned himself by the trapdoor lever<\/span><\/p>\n With a nod from the sheriff, the lever was pulled <\/span><\/p>\n and the condemned plummeted to the ground, <\/span><\/p>\n with a loud snap the rope broke, and the man stood up and gazed up at the sheriff. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What now?\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The condemned man said<\/p>\n \u00a0The sheriff drew his pistol, three shots rang out, <\/span><\/p>\n none of them finding their home. <\/span><\/p>\n Befuddled the sheriff fired three more, to no avail. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Don’t just stand there, lock him up! <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the sheriff shouted to his deputies, <\/span><\/p>\n who ushered him back into the jail. <\/span><\/p>\n That night there was a knock on the jail door, a woman was there, <\/span><\/p>\n dressed in black wanting to speak to the prisoner. <\/span><\/p>\n The deputy showed her out soon after.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Well I guess we’ll try again <\/strong><\/em>tomorrow\u00a0<\/i><\/b>The deputy sighed<\/p>\n When he checked, the prisoner was dead.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0The sheriff stared looking at the condemned man. \u00a0He stared back at the sheriff, his cold eyes gazing through him, chilling his blood. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can’t till she gets here.\u00a0he coldly replied to the sheriff. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Till who gets here? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just have to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54492","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\/1255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59413,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54492\/revisions\/59413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}