{"id":8408,"date":"2015-02-23T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:24:27","slug":"spirits-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/spirits-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirits Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/spirits-among-us.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8426 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/spirits-among-us-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"spirits among us\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/spirits-among-us-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/spirits-among-us-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/spirits-among-us.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I saw John Edward<br \/>\nat the Westbury Theatre,<br \/>\nI was not sold at all.<br \/>\nIf spirits walked around us,<br \/>\nwanting to tell us<br \/>\nthat they were here,<br \/>\nthat they had a message waiting,<br \/>\nthen why talk to him?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t ghosts love electricity?<br \/>\nCould flickering lights mean<br \/>\nthat they were standing close,<br \/>\nwhispering in an ear,<br \/>\nstruggling to breach the other side?<br \/>\nWhat about a voice on the radio,<br \/>\nblurring between stations?<br \/>\nHas your television not sprung to life<br \/>\nwith no one handling the remote?<br \/>\nDid you ever have that dream,<br \/>\nwhere someone was in your room,<br \/>\nsomeone standing close,<br \/>\nwatching your every move?<br \/>\nDo we really need a John Edward?<br \/>\nSeeing how packed that theatre was,<br \/>\nI guess we do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Melissa R. Mendelson has been working for the State of New York for the last five years. \u00a0She is also a published short story author and poet. \u00a0Her poetry has been included in Names in a Jar: A Collection of Poetry by 100 American Poets (Amazon, 2007). \u00a0Her short story, Whispers in the Night, has been included in Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe (Amazon, 2012).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw John Edward<br \/>\nat the Westbury Theatre,<br \/>\nI was not sold at all.<br \/>\nIf spirits walked around us,<br \/>\nwanting to tell us<br \/>\nthat they were here,<br \/>\nthat they had a message waiting,<br \/>\nthen why talk to him?<br \/>\nDon\u2019t ghosts love electricity?<br \/>\nCould flickering lights mean<br \/>\nthat they were standing close,<br \/>\nwhispering in an ear<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/wp.me\/p22yCp-2bC\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":8426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8427,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions\/8427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}