{"id":1366,"date":"2017-03-27T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2017-03-26T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T01:24:17","slug":"phone-ringing-by-lily-tierney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Phone Ringing by Lily Tierney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1369 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3Steps_-_Telephones_16636768976-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"3Steps_-_Telephones_(16636768976)\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3Steps_-_Telephones_16636768976-300x290.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3Steps_-_Telephones_16636768976-768x743.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3Steps_-_Telephones_16636768976.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nHe heard it again this time<br \/>\nlouder than before. Sleep<br \/>\nwas a luxury he did not have.<br \/>\nIt has been almost two weeks<br \/>\nsince he last had a nights sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The phone would ring at odd hours,<br \/>\nbut he would never answer it. He knew<br \/>\nwho was calling. It was always the same.<br \/>\nIt would ring three times then silence.<\/p>\n<p>He never left the apartment for fear<br \/>\nhe would not hear the phone. The ringing<br \/>\nis what he waited for.<\/p>\n<p>He knew he could never answer it not on the<br \/>\nfirst, second or third ring. He also knew why.<\/p>\n<p>He would one day admit his guilt, but till then<br \/>\nthe phone would ring. The spirit would always<br \/>\nleave on the third ring.<\/p>\n<p>The self-made prison where time was<br \/>\nconsumed by a phone that only he heard.<\/p>\n<h6>3 Steps Telephone Paintings, 2014, shared with\u00c2\u00a0creative commons license<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He heard it again this time louder than before. Sleep was a luxury he did not have. It has been almost two weeks since he last had a nights sleep. The phone would ring at odd hours, but he would never answer it. He knew who was calling. It was always the same. It would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","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=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}