{"id":528,"date":"2010-09-28T00:34:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T04:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2010-09-28T00:34:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T04:34:54","slug":"the-last-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=528","title":{"rendered":"The Last Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Chantelle Aime\u0301e Osman<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nThey said she was able to utter a few words before she died.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course that was just hypothetical, because, bored from our never-ending death vigil, we decided to blow the hospital and head for the nearest Starbucks.  That white chocolate frappucino tasted like heaven.  Sweet blended heaven.  I still regret that I dropped it when the nurse rushed by with the paddles&#8230;  And that the doctor slipped in it, and slid into the EKG machine.  <\/p>\n<p>At least it saved us from making the decision to pull the plug.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>CHANTELLE AIM\u00c9E OSMAN<\/strong> is a mystery writer whose short stories and flash fiction have been published in anthologies and online. She is also one of the founding members of The Sirens of Suspense, a blog by a group of award-winning authors on all things writing and publishing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirensofsuspense.com\">www.sirensofsuspense.com<\/a>). In her other life, she own a script consultation company (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistofkarma.com\">www.twistofkarma.com<\/a>), and speaks to writing conferences nationwide about selling screenplays to Hollywood.  Her non-fiction book on screenwriting, <em>Keys to the Kingdom<\/em>, will be out in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chantelle Aime\u0301e Osman They said she was able to utter a few words before she died. Of course that was just hypothetical, because, bored from our never-ending death vigil, we decided to blow the hospital and head for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":314,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-8w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/529"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}