{"id":341,"date":"2009-03-09T04:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T11:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-03-09T04:34:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T11:34:50","slug":"changeling-by-virginia-m-mohlere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Changeling, by Virginia M. Mohlere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no one left<br \/>\nto remember<br \/>\nthat boiling water in eggshells<br \/>\nwill catch me out.<\/p>\n<p>I remain:<br \/>\nthe homely child,<br \/>\nhair-puller,<br \/>\ntorturer of cats,<br \/>\nbereft of any power<br \/>\nsave lack of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Even cold iron<br \/>\nhas given way<br \/>\nto silicon and plastic.<\/p>\n<p>What kills me by increments<br \/>\nis not your black metal<br \/>\nor mummy-dry churches:<br \/>\nit&#8217;s the boredom<br \/>\nof seasons passing unnoticed<br \/>\nwhile I hump my ass<br \/>\nover a keyboard<br \/>\nto pay the rent.<\/p>\n<p>I had centuries of joy<br \/>\nunder sidhe hills<br \/>\nbefore my exile.<\/p>\n<p>Human tedium<br \/>\nis the slowest strangle.<br \/>\nBut you know all about that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 81pt; text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 81pt; text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 81pt; text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no one left to remember that boiling water in eggshells will catch me out. I remain: the homely child, hair-puller, torturer of cats, bereft of any power save lack of conscience. Even cold iron has given way to silicon and plastic. What kills me by increments is not your black metal or mummy-dry [&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-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}