{"id":6563,"date":"2015-02-04T08:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6563"},"modified":"2015-02-04T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T01:43:09","slug":"death-at-burger-king","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6563","title":{"rendered":"Death At Burger King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>B.A. Varghese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Whopper box, like a tomb,<br \/>\nhad a picture of one neat green lettuce lying<br \/>\non one slice of succulent red tomato, probably<br \/>\ngrown in the sea side of Sicily, resting<br \/>\nupon browned meat enclosed in a bun of wheat<br \/>\nand sesame seeds. I opened the box, took a hold<br \/>\nof my palatable poison, and bit down. I didn&#8217;t chew<br \/>\nmuch and I swallowed chunks whole. Any<br \/>\nother way of going would have been too messy<br \/>\nor at least require more on my part. This<br \/>\nwas slow and painless. This would take years.<br \/>\nMethodical. Mouth-watering.<br \/>\nAfter the stake fries and Coke, that went<br \/>\ndown like embalming fluid, I smiled<br \/>\nand just waited and waited for the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>B. A. VARGHESE<\/strong> graduated from Polytechnic University (New York) in 1993 and has been working in the Information Technology field ever since. Inspired to explore his artistic side, he has earned a B.A. in English from the University of South Florida and is currently in the process of working toward an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. His works have appeared in <em>Cleaver Magazine<\/em>, <em>Apalachee Review<\/em>, <em>Rose Red Review<\/em>, and other literary journals. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bavarghese.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.bavarghese.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A. Varghese The Whopper box, like a tomb, had a picture of one neat green lettuce lying on one slice of succulent red tomato, probably grown in the sea side of Sicily, resting upon browned meat enclosed in a bun &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6558,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1HR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6563","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6563\/revisions\/6586"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}