{"id":1888,"date":"2002-01-23T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2002-01-23T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2002-01-23T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2002-01-23T18:39:22","slug":"bloody-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/01\/23\/bloody-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took <a href='http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/archive\/2002\/01.html#11a'>Rebecca Blood&#8217;s advice<\/a> and read <a href='http:\/\/www.miaminewtimes.com\/issues\/1997-06-05\/feature.html'>this fantastic article<\/a> about the secret stories of homeless children.  (It&#8217;s simply too long to be read on a monitor, so print it out and read it at your leisure.)  In these stories, God has fled the battlefield of our world, leaving His angels to wage a losing battle against Satan and the dreaded Bloody Mary.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me later that I had heard tell of this Bloody Mary before, in a This American Life episode entitled <a href='http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/pages\/descriptions\/98\/109.html'>Notes From Camp<\/a>.  (Mary shows up about a third of the way into the program, during the section on ghost stories.)  In fact, a little research shows that Ms. Mary is everywhere, if you know where to look.  <a href='http:\/\/www.mythology.com\/bloodymary.html'>This Mythology Web article<\/a>, for example, compares dozens of variations on this most unsettling legend about the face in the mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took Rebecca Blood&#8217;s advice and read this fantastic article about the secret stories of homeless children. (It&#8217;s simply too long to be read on a monitor, so print it out and read it at your leisure.) In these stories, God has fled the battlefield of our world, leaving His angels to wage a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}