{"id":468,"date":"2012-03-25T21:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=468"},"modified":"2012-03-25T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:53:51","slug":"purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/03\/25\/purgatory\/","title":{"rendered":"PURGATORY"},"content":{"rendered":"
by JADON<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Wind. Breeze. Air currents. The powerful energizers that pierce my soul with life and power.\u00a0 As my heart jump-starts, I awake on the acres of elegant, healthy grass blades.\u00a0 I am surprised how quickly I rise to my bare feet and spread my average wingspan to embrace the icy winds. I\u2019m dead. I know it. I feel it. I sense it. I remember only flashes and fragments of my last moments on earth before Death himself touched my heart and ascended to this paradise. But I am not an ignorant fool.\u00a0 I know this place better than my own hand. This is Hell. This is Purgatory.<\/p>\n

Well now that God has burdened me to this realm I needed to pure the so called \u201csins\u201d\u00a0that I have committed.\u00a0 I needed to work my way up from the ground to the peak of Mount Purgatory.\u00a0 How, you ask? Simple. By slaying demons.<\/p>\n

I began my journey to enlightenment by traveling one of Purgatory\u2019s large forests. I needed to search for tools. I needed weapons.\u00a0 I walked through the splinters of light and shadow. Searching for a javelin or a sword or anything. But instead I found nothing. Nothing. But I saw something. A light. A refraction. A gleam of light and rays. Salvation with a point.\u00a0 I sprinted over and grabbed the object hoping it was a sword. A long blade.<\/p>\n

\u201cA KNIFE!!!!!!!!!!\u201d I exclaimed. Purgatory sent me a knife to slay demons with a goddamn knife! I felt a claw on my shoulder\u2019s and in a flash I was in the air screaming for my dear life. I looked up and saw my destroyer.<\/p>\n

It had red eyes and gray skin with black nightmarish wings of chaos. Fear itself stared me down. I blindly pulled the knife and lashed out on my killer, penetrating the soft gray flesh with the hard cold blade of my wrath.<\/p>\n

He burst into golden dust before my eyes and so did the hard grip keeping me from falling. I lashed out like a fish out of water, as if trying to fly without wings.<\/p>\n

Gravity reached out and gripped me with it\u2019s enormous hand pulling me to the ground. I fell straight through the trees scraping and cutting my skin. I fell onto the ground felling the wrath of momentum. My head was dizzy and my vision was doubled.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne down, one million to go,\u201d my head dropped into unconsciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by JADON<\/a> <\/p>\n

Wind. Breeze. Air currents. The powerful energizers that pierce my soul with life and power.\u00a0 As my heart jump-starts, I awake on the acres of elegant, healthy grass blades.\u00a0 I am surprised how quickly I rise to my bare feet and spread my average wingspan to embrace the icy winds. I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17280],"tags":[79506],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-jadon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}