{"id":247,"date":"2006-10-26T17:51:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/she-reminded-me-of-another\/"},"modified":"2006-10-27T00:10:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T00:10:48","slug":"she-reminded-me-of-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/she-reminded-me-of-another\/","title":{"rendered":"she reminded me of another."},"content":{"rendered":"

Pt 2: It takes a half a man to beat a woman…and I believed that half-a-man was outside waiting for her just beyond the fog…<\/a><\/p>\n

The cops got there when they got there. I moaned about it later but I know the wait wasn’t as long as it felt – Time has a way of dragging on when you’re caught up in the middle of something. <\/p>\n

Jean unlocked the door. Waved her hand out into the parking lot. “She says he’s out there. Say’s he has a gun.” <\/p>\n

The officer glanced over her shoulder at Maroula, with a look that suggested he didn’t really believe in things that went bump in the night. When he asked “Is she drunk?” I wanted to throw a box of Virginia Slims at his head. <\/p>\n

I didn’t. And after a good stare he told Jean to “Go back in and wait” and “Another car’s on it’s way.” <\/p>\n

As Maroula begged the older woman to keep the door locked, I flashed back to offender profiling, victimology studies (see no.23) <\/a>and EU prison law. <\/p>\n

I remembered another woman, just a year earlier, who jumped from a third story window and broke most of the bones in her lower body after being tied to a boiling radiator for two weeks…A Legal Aid defence team who drug her through court and tried to paint her a drunkard and a whore…And the guy who did it, who claimed he was just-your-average-Joe engaging in some innocent, and entirely consensual, S&M. (He ended up getting a laughable two years in prison where he’s now moaning about the food and his human rights.) <\/p>\n

I hoped Maroula wouldn’t turn out the same way, but worried that she would.<\/p>\n

Continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pt 2: It takes a half a man to beat a woman…and I believed that half-a-man was outside waiting for her just beyond the fog… The cops got there when they got there. I moaned about it later but I know the wait wasn’t as long as it felt – Time has a way of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}