{"id":234,"date":"2008-02-02T19:53:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T00:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2008-02-24T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T23:59:45","slug":"some-mythical-white-faced-blank-featured-creature-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Some mythical, white-faced, blank-featured creature of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2parse.com\/\/images\/opossum.gif?resize=480%2C368\" alt=\"Opossum\" height=\"368\" width=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<small> Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hbpeggy\">Peggy Hughes<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>A brief non-political comment for the blog: a few nights ago, I was coming home from work, and while walking up the pathway to the front door, I saw an opossum.  Ghostly white face; long nose; empty black eyes.  The animal was staring at me &#8211; and I just stopped and started back.  It took me a few moments to realize it was an opossum instead of some mythical, white-faced, blank-featured creature of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The opossum didn&#8217;t move &#8211; and neither did I.  Then, thinking I might be able to shoo the animal away, I made a sudden move, as if to move towards it.  Still nothing.  It&#8217;s empty eyes never blinked or focused on anything but me. I walked past it into the house, put down my bag, and went back outside to see if it had moved.  It had vanished without a trace &#8211;  though I didn&#8217;t look all that hard.<\/p>\n<p>My point is this: that opossums are pretty freaky looking, and can, in the right light, be pretty scary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image courtesy of Peggy Hughes. A brief non-political comment for the blog: a few nights ago, I was coming home from work, and while walking up the pathway to the front door, I saw an opossum. Ghostly white face; long nose; empty black eyes. The animal was staring at me &#8211; and I just stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-3M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}