{"id":8486,"date":"2021-10-31T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8486"},"modified":"2021-10-31T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T21:24:42","slug":"inertia-of-the-noon-wraith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8486","title":{"rendered":"Inertia of the Noon Wraith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Jennifer Ruth Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She weeps, waters the cornfield while cackling<br>pilots swoop stalks for citrine pebbles. She will<br>not move as beaks graze her broom-stiff hair.<br>White dress crunches like footsteps on gravel,<br>flakes of age and blood pelt her legs. Feathers<br>festoon her shoulders, unnoticed. Her head<br>rests in slender hands held at chest level.<br>She awaits the workers in the mid-day sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JENNIFER RUTH JACKSON<\/strong>\u00a0writes about reality&#8217;s weirdness and the plausibility of the fantastic. Her work has appeared in\u00a0<em>Strange Horizons, Star*Line, Apex Magazine<\/em>, and more. She runs a blog for disabled and neurodivergent creatives called The Handy, Uncapped Pen from an apartment she shares with her husband. Visit her on Twitter: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenruthjackson\">jenruthjackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Ruth Jackson She weeps, waters the cornfield while cacklingpilots swoop stalks for citrine pebbles. She willnot move as beaks graze her broom-stiff hair.White dress crunches like footsteps on gravel,flakes of age and blood pelt her legs. Feathersfestoon her shoulders, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8485,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2cS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8486","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=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8531,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8486\/revisions\/8531"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}