{"id":3450,"date":"2017-04-26T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2017-04-16T20:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:51:38","slug":"bethany-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Bethany Reid &#8220;His Neck Slashed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Bethany Reid<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">His Neck Slashed <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>the murdered man staggered<br \/>\nfrom the bed to the dresser<br \/>\nand stood, astonished, where each night<br \/>\nfor thirty years he had emptied<br \/>\nhis pockets of coins and keys\u2014<br \/>\nstaring now into the mirror as his life<br \/>\ndrained from him, his soul<br \/>\ndraped like a pair of silk stockings<br \/>\nover his wife\u2019s vanity table,<br \/>\nafter a while, lifting and drifting<br \/>\ninto the afterlife without him.<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more about<\/em><strong> Bethany Reid,<\/strong><em> visit her blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/awritersalchemy.wordpress.com\">awritersalchemy.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethany Reid His Neck Slashed the murdered man staggered from the bed to the dresser and stood, astonished, where each night for thirty years he had emptied his pockets of coins and keys\u2014 staring now into the mirror as his life drained from him, his soul draped like a pair of silk stockings over his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[362],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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