{"id":7547,"date":"2017-05-03T14:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7547"},"modified":"2017-05-03T14:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:56:57","slug":"whitechapel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7547","title":{"rendered":"Whitechapel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Megan Mealor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jane rang an Irish refrain,<br \/>\ndrunk on Ten Bells whiskey.<br \/>\nHer unpolluted apron ablaze,<br \/>\nshe surrendered a scarlet shawl<br \/>\nand her weary wildgrass heart<br \/>\nto the rogue incubus cloaked<br \/>\nin the serrated fog, haunting<br \/>\nevery step of squalid streets,<br \/>\npreying on its darkest shadows.<\/p>\n<p>She placed the native beauty berries<br \/>\nupon her wooden churchyard grave,<br \/>\nmarked with the Unfortunate\u2019s brand<br \/>\nshe seared upon her own scars<br \/>\nwhen she abandoned everywhere<br \/>\nthat could tie her to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, there was nothing<br \/>\nshe would not do<br \/>\nfor a fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEGAN MEALOR<\/strong> resides in Jacksonville, Florida, and works full-time as a mother, writer, and pet-sitter. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in <em>Digital Americana<\/em>, <em>4 and 20<\/em>, <em>Midnight Circus<\/em>, The <em>Rathalla Review<\/em>, <em>Obsessed With Pipework<\/em>, <em>Hello Horror<\/em>, <em>Dark Moon Digest<\/em>, <em>Belle Reve<\/em>, <em>Skidrow Penthouse<\/em>, <em>Broad!<\/em>, <em>Deep South<\/em>, <em>Black Heart Magazine<\/em>, <em>The Belleville Park Pages<\/em>, <em>The Bitchin&#8217; Kitsch<\/em>, <em>Rat&#8217;s Ass Review<\/em>, <em>Better Than Starbucks<\/em>, <em>The Front Porch Review<\/em>, and, most recently, a ten-poem feature in <em>Sick Lit Magazine<\/em>. Her writing style is patchwork potpourri infused with venom, volcanoes, and raw clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Mealor &nbsp; &nbsp; Mary Jane rang an Irish refrain, drunk on Ten Bells whiskey. Her unpolluted apron ablaze, she surrendered a scarlet shawl and her weary wildgrass heart to the rogue incubus cloaked in the serrated fog, haunting every &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7542,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1XJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7547","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=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7557,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7547\/revisions\/7557"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}