Working early at the store, music playing overhead while I stand at the counter and tap away at my computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Preoccupied with personal gripes and past arguments\u2014sifting through parental and paternal confrontations long past and never happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mind, in short, on other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c<\/span>Hey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A hoarse whisper, loud, from someone standing in the open space to my left. I startle, thinking that one of the other tenants came in when I was preoccupied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No one is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I step out from behind the counter, into the space between the jewelry counter and the rest of the store... Listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working early at the store, music playing overhead while I stand at the counter and tap away at my computer. Preoccupied with personal gripes and past arguments\u2014sifting through parental and paternal confrontations long past and never happened. My mind, in short, on other things. \u201cHey.\u201d A hoarse whisper, loud, from someone standing in the open [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[824,104,913,85,284],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hallucinations","tag-alone","tag-music","tag-store","tag-voices","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}