{"id":4893,"date":"2024-10-26T20:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2024-10-26T20:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T20:37:39","slug":"dont-fear-the-reaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/dont-fear-the-reaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t fear the Reaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, heading upstairs in our building in the elevator, we stopped at the 12th floor and the doors opened to reveal a tall skeleton in a black hooded cloak, holding an enormous scythe.<\/p>\n

“Going down?” the Reaper asked, as he stepped inside.<\/p>\n

“Up,” I said, feeling intimidated by his height. Never seen this guy so up close before.<\/p>\n

“Oh, I…”<\/p>\n

“I didn’t expect to see you for another thirty years!” I said, feeling suddenly clever.<\/p>\n

“Well, we’ll see, I guess. Goodnight,” said The Reaper, stepping back outside as the elevator doors closed.<\/p>\n

Yikes. (True story.)<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, heading upstairs in our building in the elevator, we stopped at the 12th floor and the doors opened to reveal a tall skeleton in a black hooded cloak, holding an enormous scythe. “Going down?” the Reaper asked, as he stepped inside. “Up,” I said, feeling intimidated by his height. Never seen this guy so … Continue reading Don’t fear the Reaper<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}