{"id":251,"date":"2006-08-15T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T11:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/08\/15\/incident-2\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:04:39","slug":"incident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/08\/15\/incident-2\/","title":{"rendered":"incident (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to complain about<br \/>\nThe arbitrary process of selection:<br \/>\nWhy me? It it a case of wrong place<br \/>\nWrong time? Or is there something more<br \/>\nSinister going on?Like, what&#8217;s the difference<br \/>\nBetween abduction by aliens and<br \/>\nKidnapping by terrorists?<\/p>\n<p>Think about it: you don&#8217;t have a choice;<br \/>\nYou may be facing inconvenient death;<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re scared and there&#8217;s no bathroom;<br \/>\nThey won&#8217;t listen to you; you&#8217;re just meat.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is the chance the aliens will<br \/>\nCatch a cold from you and , like, die; there is also<br \/>\nThe reverse possibility, I hasten to add. I am<br \/>\nStill wondering if I am going to turn green<br \/>\nOr grow scales or lose some fingers or<br \/>\nGrow an extra eye, which some religions<br \/>\nSee as an advantage, but doesn&#8217;t appeal<br \/>\nTo me, much.<\/p>\n<p>About the abduction itself:<br \/>\nThe usual impaling and poking, just like<br \/>\nAt the doctor&#8217;s office,<br \/>\nExcept there were no old magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to complain about The arbitrary process of selection: Why me? It it a case of wrong place Wrong time? Or is there something more Sinister going on?Like, what&#8217;s the difference Between abduction by aliens and Kidnapping by terrorists? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/08\/15\/incident-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}