{"id":404,"date":"2015-06-29T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jebzii.wordpress.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-06-29T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T20:42:14","slug":"chapter-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/2015\/06\/29\/chapter-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I stared at the bulge in my father\u2019s throat, hoping to find a spot where If I slit, he would suffer the most. The Adam\u2019s apple that was supposed to make him a man had failed. He had remained a monster.<\/p>\n<p>I could feel another surge of rage pulsating through, as he began to speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I knew that your mother had a <em>defect<\/em> when I saw her for the first time\u2019, he cleared this throat to continue; \u2018The slum she was born in was the size of her bathroom. Men like me spat at places like that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Then he cleared his throat again, and spat out of the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But do you know why a chose to marry a retard? Even though she is stupid, she has a good soul. And my darling child, a good soul is the only thing you need to survive in this world.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I could feel the anger slowly slip away.<\/p>\n<p>No please, I begged to an unknown figure, let me hate him, it is going to make this a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>And just like that it was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 I stared at the bulge in my father\u2019s throat, hoping to find a spot where If I slit, he would suffer the most. The Adam\u2019s apple that was supposed to make him a man had failed. He had remained<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/2015\/06\/29\/chapter-one\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1289956],"tags":[628453,1290021,1290026,1290035,257147],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-from-a-pineapple","tag-628453","tag-a-cup-of-tea","tag-amateur-writer","tag-chapter1","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theedventure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}