{"id":393,"date":"2017-11-04T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=393"},"modified":"2017-11-04T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:37:45","slug":"glass-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2017\/11\/04\/glass-shoe\/","title":{"rendered":"GLASS SHOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by ALTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The moon beamed through my window as I turned the car off. I sat there. The familiar void was coming to my body. It\u2019s about 3:25 in the morning. Man, I hate restless nights. I look outside. The house has no lights on. She\u2019s asleep but not in my arms. I hit my steering wheel. Dammit. You make this so hard. I reach in my glove compartment to grab the shoe. There wasn\u2019t a scratch, or scuff. I curse the heavens and pretend to get out the car. Who am I kidding. I\u2019m not a man. I\u2019m weak. My mechanism is to grab whatever I can and chug it till it\u2019s empty. I take one last look as I inhale for a deep breath. Then, I turn on my car to leave. As I speed I notice her bedroom light cut on, as she was hugged by another man. I\u2019ll give you your shoe one day Cinderella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by ALTON<\/p>\n<p>The moon beamed through my window as I turned the car off. I sat there. The familiar void was coming to my body. It\u2019s about 3:25 in the morning. Man, I hate restless nights. I look outside. The house has no lights on. She\u2019s asleep but not in my arms. I hit my [&#8230;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}