{"id":10792,"date":"2021-06-13T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2021-06-13T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T20:44:00","slug":"the-hedge-wifes-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10792","title":{"rendered":"The Hedge-Wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Die_Gartenlaube_1882_b_361.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Die_Gartenlaube_1882_b_361.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10793\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Die_Gartenlaube_1882_b_361.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Die_Gartenlaube_1882_b_361-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>M\u00c3\u00a4rchenerz\u00c3\u00a4hlerin by J. Adam, 1882<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sandi Leibowitz<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nSurely, child, I can provide\nthat simple thing you ask for\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\nto cross the eyes of some poor girl\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never met.\nBut such a gift comes dear\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\nmean-spirited witchery exacts\na price on the practitioner,\nand I must pass along the cost.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nNay, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cross my palm with coins\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfill my ear with story.\nHow she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wronged you?\nThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not what I need,\nmere pennies of your fee.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nRemember your granny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hearthside tales,\nnot the ones you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard a thousand times,\nbut those you heard just once.\nTell the one she murmured\nwhen they thought you were asleep.\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d slipped into your auntie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lap,\nyour breathing stilled.\nA dark tale came,\nso filled with blood and wonder\nyour toes and fingers ached\nand your heart banged loud, so loud\nyou thought they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d guessed you hearkened.\nA tale so strange you knew\nit must be true.\nTell me that one.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nTell me the tales that come for you\nsometimes at night\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou think them dreams\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\nwhere you travel to cities\nyou don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand,\nbut cry missing them.\nAnd the ones that claw you\nfrom the insides out,\nthat force you to rise, shaking,\nrepeating,\n<em>It was a dream, a dream,<\/em>\n<em>nothing more<\/em>.\nTell me those.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandi Leibowitz Surely, child, I can provide that simple thing you ask for\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to cross the eyes of some poor girl I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never met. But such a gift comes dear\u00e2\u20ac\u201d mean-spirited witchery exacts a price on the practitioner, and I must pass along the cost. \u00c2\u00a0 Nay, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cross my palm with coins \u00e2\u20ac\u201dfill my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}