{"id":1121,"date":"2026-05-20T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:10:57","slug":"the-watcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/the-watcher\/","title":{"rendered":"the watcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">...and mid-way through the episode, I look up from the sofa to see a large dark figure move from where it was standing in the entryway, heading towards the front stairs and out of&nbsp;sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Startled, in spite of myself, I sit for a moment staring at the empty doorframe, waiting for the motion detector on the stairs to register the movement . . . hoping it was just my daughter coming down for a drink of&nbsp;water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I rise and go into the front hallway, looking up the stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a long moment, one of our cats comes down and stops at the upper landing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her eyes, very&nbsp;wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chattering at me, she  turns and disappears back upstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I return to my place on the sofa, wondering if the shadow has returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>...and mid-way through the episode, I look up from the sofa to see a large dark figure move from where it was standing in the entryway, heading towards the front stairs and out of&nbsp;sight. Startled, in spite of myself, I sit for a moment staring at the empty doorframe, waiting for the motion detector on&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[814,11,280,608],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ghosts","category-hallucinations","tag-cat","tag-shadows","tag-stairs","tag-the-last-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","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=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}