{"id":42039,"date":"2012-08-02T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/02\/to-tide-you-over\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T18:10:00","slug":"to-tide-you-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/02\/to-tide-you-over\/","title":{"rendered":"To tide you over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/50unexplainablestories.tumblr.com\/post\/28489818479\/hoover-hawg-of-eden-by-august-williams-the-house'>To tide you over&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>to tide over my lovely followers, please enjoy this short story! \u00a0I continue to work on other projects, but the 50 Unexplainable Stories project I started with my friend Jill is one of the most consistent. and I happen to be rather fond of this little tale. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/50unexplainablestories.tumblr.com\/post\/28489818479\/hoover-hawg-of-eden-by-august-williams-the-house\">50unexplainablestories<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Hoover Hawg of Eden<\/strong>, by August Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The house wasn\u2019t the same anymore.\u00a0 Now the wind rattled impolitely at the windows, begging to let the dust in, a hollow replacement for the baby\u2019s cries of hunger.\u00a0 Artie sat on the edge of his cot and listened to the plaintive howl, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the peeling wallpaper.\u00a0 He hugged his knees to his chest and tried to stop trembling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the other room, his mama stammered her plea: Arthur senior had to bring something home, anything to silence the spasms of her stomach.\u00a0 Artie bit his lip and closed his eyes, his mama\u2019s soft and wrinkled face rising into his mind.\u00a0 She bore her Native American heritage proudly, though she rarely spoke of it.\u00a0 He heard her whisper, <em>the desert will be kind enough to take me\u2014it is full of my ancestors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Artie dashed the tears from his face with a grimy sleeve and pushed himself off the cot.\u00a0 He ran past his parents, huddled over the dinner table, their hands entwined.\u00a0 He stopped long enough to grab his noose stick from against the side of the house and fled into the dust&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(for the rest, click the link!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To tide you over&#8230; to tide over my lovely followers, please enjoy this short story! \u00a0I continue to work on other projects, but the 50 Unexplainable Stories project I started with my friend Jill is one of the most consistent. and I happen to be rather fond of this little tale. \ud83d\ude42 50unexplainablestories: Hoover Hawg &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/02\/to-tide-you-over\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To tide you over&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11733,33,6995,11],"class_list":["post-42039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-otherwriting","tag-short-story","tag-writer","tag-writing","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}