{"id":7862,"date":"2018-03-18T01:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T07:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7862"},"modified":"2018-03-18T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T03:02:46","slug":"the-lady-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7862","title":{"rendered":"The Lady of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daniel Galef<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is something &#8212; <em>off?<\/em> The captain scoffs: \u2018Pizzazz!\u2019<br \/>\nThat\u2019s not it, but I don\u2019t dare say he\u2019s wrong.<br \/>\nI heard the butler whisper that she has<br \/>\nA tooth or two too many, or too long.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve seen her prick her ears up like a cat,<br \/>\nWhich gave me a peculiar <em>hunted<\/em> feeling.<br \/>\nShe smiled and said \u2018Why, any can do that,\u2019<br \/>\nAnd then returned to dusting off the ceiling.<br \/>\nShe walks the moorlands: Cold and arid climes<br \/>\nAre where she says her noble line arose.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s strangely secretive at other times,<br \/>\nWhen asked, say, why she hasn\u2019t got a nose.<br \/>\nBut love erases flaws, and hides all scars:<br \/>\nTo err is human &#8212; Who\u2019s to say, on Mars?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANIEL GALEF<\/strong> is an undergraduate student of classical philosophy and classical literature at McGill University in Montreal. His poems have appeared in <em>The Lyric<\/em>, <em>Measure<\/em>, and <em>Light Quarterly<\/em>, and his genre poetry in particular in <em>Sein und Werden<\/em>, the <em>Surreal Grotesque<\/em>, and <em>Child of Words Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction<\/em>. He also writes musicals and won the Krivy Award for Excellence in Playwriting at the 2016 McGill Drama Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Galef &nbsp; &nbsp; Is something &#8212; off? The captain scoffs: \u2018Pizzazz!\u2019 That\u2019s not it, but I don\u2019t dare say he\u2019s wrong. I heard the butler whisper that she has A tooth or two too many, or too long. I\u2019ve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7858,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7862","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-22O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7862","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=7862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7862\/revisions\/7891"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}