{"id":2464,"date":"2017-02-19T13:07:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T18:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beydeckard.com\/blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2017-05-19T12:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:53:40","slug":"the-steadfast-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/the-steadfast-assassin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steadfast Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>
\nNo one can see the gun to my head,
\nPushed hard against my temple.
\nAnd I can't see who holds it,
\nThough we walk through life in step,
\nBut I can sometimes hear them crying
\nIn the spaces between my breaths.
\nAnd when the gun begins to quake,
\nIt's fear that makes me pray
\nThat my steadfast, spectral assassin
\nCan wait just one more day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one can see the gun to my head, Pushed hard against my temple. And I can’t see who holds it, Though we walk through life in step, But I can sometimes hear them crying In the spaces between my breaths. And when the gun begins to quake, It’s fear that makes me pray That my steadfast, spectral assassin Can wait just one more day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72],"tags":[662,84,663],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beys-tales-writing-2","tag-assassin","tag-poem","tag-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4sexs-DK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1535,"url":"https:\/\/beydeckard.com\/blog\/uncommonly-on-sale-99%c2%a2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2464,"position":0},"title":"UnCommonly on Sale – 99\u00a2","author":"Bey","date":"February 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Heads up! 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