{"id":2452,"date":"2019-10-21T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2019-10-20T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T19:39:07","slug":"witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/460px-The_Love_Potion.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/460px-The_Love_Potion.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/460px-The_Love_Potion-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption>The Love Potion by Evelyn de Morgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mary Soon Lee<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"arial\">Chose this path,<br>the barred doors,<br>her father's face averted<br>as she left the village.<br><br><br>Cast herself out<br>to the hut in the wood,<br>the cold corpse of the crone<br>who was witch before her.<br><br><br>Hard hours digging a grave,<br>the earth iron with frost;<br>hard work, a hard price<br>so that no man would own her.<br><br><br>Hunched at the hut's hearth,<br>chilled beyond bone;<br>back, fingers, arms aching<br>from her grim labor.<br><br><br>A blackness darker<br>than the shadowed shelves<br>slipped loose, edged its way<br>to an empty bowl. Cat.<br><br><br>Cat's accusing stare<br>as quietly, slowly,<br>trying not to startle it,<br>she offered it food.<br><br><br>Cat's small softness<br>beside her when she woke,<br>a gentler, older magic<br>than any she learned after.<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Soon Lee Chose this path,the barred doors,her father&#8217;s face avertedas she left the village.Cast herself outto the hut in the wood,the cold corpse of the cronewho was witch before her.Hard hours digging a grave,the earth iron with frost;hard work, a hard priceso that no man would own her.Hunched at the hut&#8217;s hearth,chilled beyond bone;back, [&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-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","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=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}