{"id":870,"date":"2004-09-28T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/28\/willing-participant\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T14:11:00","slug":"willing-participant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/28\/willing-participant\/","title":{"rendered":"willing participant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 2 pm, it&#8217;s the morning finally. The sort of morning I keep under my bed. Keep them pressed between mattresses like a prince from a ridiculous story might keep sadistic instruments of vegetable torture. Pushed awake too soon. Executive decision said Now You Who Sleep Awake.  Don&#8217;t be like this, I pled, but no. The correctional facility wasn&#8217;t answering. <i>this call has been disconnected<\/i> To sleep at eight and up at two. Set in pliable stone. <\/p>\n<p>Difficult night, I could say. Insistent guests on-line, on the phone, at my door. Everyone leaving finally at four. I might have had a chance to sleep, but I threw off the groggy shawl to don a silver mantle of piqued interest. Talk to me of drugs, this drug, she&#8217;s your cocaine. To everyone else, this door is shut and locked. Meltingly asking for admittance will not suffice. The key&#8217;s been swallowed. Break it down and die boys. To lay your hands upon me once upon a time is to expect regret sooner than I can scratch you. The people watching from the street would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/mistersleepless\/33825.html\">never get pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Someone&#8217;s moving a little lower than angels allow. They&#8217;re whispering to me, but my hands are empty. I feel there&#8217;s a skin to this, a grace. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Jason&#8217;s birthday today. The fellow who&#8217;s reading through this sorry mess from entry one. <strike>I&#8217;m going to bring him something tasty and finally meet him. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s list: anti-kid pills, ferret food, one ticket to TV on the Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2 pm, it&#8217;s the morning finally. The sort of morning I keep under my bed. Keep them pressed between mattresses like a prince from a ridiculous story might keep sadistic instruments of vegetable torture. Pushed awake too soon. Executive decision said Now You Who Sleep Awake. Don&#8217;t be like this, I pled, but no. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/09\/28\/willing-participant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;willing participant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}