{"id":534,"date":"2021-06-13T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2024-08-13T20:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T00:43:18","slug":"pale-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/13\/pale-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dreamt of my cousin. She was very pale. She is 33 in the dream, tall, lithe, alabaster skin, strawberry blonde hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found her slumped over in the warehouse. We must be in Detroit. She was bleeding from her shoulder on her white torn t-shirt over her black leather pants and goth platform boots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked at the shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was good. I loved it,\u201d she gasped as she gestured toward the wound on her shoulder. It was a fresh scar wound, but it was too deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI need to get you some help.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I leaned her against a large cardboard box on a pallet as she passed out. She sat slumped against it like a marionette with its strings cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need help, but I\u2019m not sure where to go. I can\u2019t alert the authorities. They will lock her up in a mental hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rm-photo-warehousehallway.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of hallway in warehouse.\" class=\"wp-image-978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rm-photo-warehousehallway.jpg 480w, https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rm-photo-warehousehallway-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Black and white photo of hallway in warehouse. Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreamt of my cousin. She was very pale. She is 33 in the dream, tall, lithe, alabaster skin, strawberry blonde hair. I found her slumped over in the warehouse. We must be in Detroit. She was bleeding from her shoulder on her white torn t-shirt over her black leather pants and goth platform boots. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,93,82],"tags":[32,83,92,84],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dreams","category-photography","category-writing","tag-art","tag-dreams","tag-photography","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangedefinition.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}