{"id":197,"date":"2010-01-14T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2010-01-14T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T21:49:43","slug":"the-wraith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/?page_id=197","title":{"rendered":"The Wraith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Wraith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Huddled against the icy wind<\/p>\n<p>That gusts under the shapeless flaps<\/p>\n<p>Of its black flowing cowl,<\/p>\n<p>The wraith peers in at the frosted glass,<\/p>\n<p>With red tormented eyes burning.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the doll house<\/p>\n<p>The fire gleams cozy and warm.<\/p>\n<p>The wind up toys laugh and chatter<\/p>\n<p>And cry pretty tears glistening on rosy cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>But they do not see the phantom<\/p>\n<p>Who lurks at their window<\/p>\n<p>And needs to suck their blood<\/p>\n<p>To feed his empty shell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John E Leahy<\/p>\n<p>ca 1970<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wraith Huddled against the icy wind That gusts under the shapeless flaps Of its black flowing cowl, The wraith peers in at the frosted glass, With red tormented eyes burning. Inside the doll house The fire gleams cozy and warm. The wind up toys laugh and chatter And cry pretty tears glistening on rosy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leahyinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}