{"id":189,"date":"2013-01-17T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T00:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:52:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:52:47","slug":"the-shadow-on-the-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/the-shadow-on-the-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"the shadow on the stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozing on the couch while the baby has her bath, I&nbsp;dream\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026and at the turn of the stairs I look up to see a shadow slowly slide down the wall and onto the floor, like a black puddle of&nbsp;oil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From this pool, a figure slowly rises \u2014 an almost cartoonlike shape of a man, pale eyes like saucers peering out at&nbsp;me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It drifts slowly down the stairs, halfway emerging from the shadow on the floor . . . drifting towards me.<\/p>\n<p>I run down the stairs and through the darkened living room, falling on the floor \u2014 my arms and legs suddenly heavy \u2014 immobilized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I watch, helpless, as the shadow drifts down the stairs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I struggle to free myself when...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozing on the couch while the baby has her bath, I&nbsp;dream\u2026 \u2026and at the turn of the stairs I look up to see a shadow slowly slide down the wall and onto the floor, like a black puddle of&nbsp;oil. From this pool, a figure slowly rises \u2014 an almost cartoonlike shape of a man,&nbsp;pale&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,282,281,11,280],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-darkness","tag-paralysis","tag-shadow-people","tag-shadows","tag-stairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}