{"id":1214,"date":"2023-10-31T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:37:10","slug":"the-thing-about-jane-by-v-maethorne-2023-spooktacular-writing-contest-1st-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/2023\/10\/31\/the-thing-about-jane-by-v-maethorne-2023-spooktacular-writing-contest-1st-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Jane by V. Maethorne (2023 Spooktacular Writing Contest: 1st Place)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>At the foot of the bed<\/em><br><em>There hangs a mirror<\/em><br><em>The space on the wall that yet<\/em><br><em>was clear:<\/em><br><em>The rest of the room<\/em><br><em>Is filled with frames&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><br><em>So over her bed, the mirror,<\/em><br><em>it hangs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oh, sweet little Jane<\/em><br><em>She didn\u2019t know<\/em><br><em>That mirrors hung above re-flect<\/em><br><em>be-low,<\/em><br><em>And for all the time<\/em><br><em>She stared awake<\/em><br><em>The Thing in the Mirror her stare<\/em><br><em>would take<\/em><br><em>And after a month<\/em><br><em>Poor Jane would find<\/em><br><em>To mirror for herself no plea-<\/em><br><em>sant time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>These days if you catch<\/em><br><em>A glimpse of Jane<\/em><br><em>Look out for her in the win-<\/em><br><em>dow pane,<\/em><br><em>But try not to make<\/em><br><em>The one in flesh<\/em><br><em>Aware that you might sus-pect<\/em><br><em>the-rest.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the foot of the bed<br \/>\nThere hangs a mirror<br \/>\nThe space on the wall that yet<br \/>\nwas clear:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[281390,297372,14,245381,281388],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1stplace","tag-297372","tag-creative-writing","tag-poetry","tag-spooktacularwritingcontest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}