{"id":908,"date":"2008-10-16T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/and-widows-will-not-weep\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T20:01:29","slug":"and-widows-will-not-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/and-widows-will-not-weep\/","title":{"rendered":"and widows will not weep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t look at her when I said it. When I said \u201cElsie\u2019s baby done died.\u201d Because there weren\u2019t no point in it. She couldn\u2019t look back. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElsie\u2019s baby?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElsie\u2019s baby done died you say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What I should have said was <em>nothing<\/em>. \u2018Cause sometimes <em>nothing<\/em> is all anybody wants to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou listen to me, boy&#8230;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Maw had a way of hurting a man that didn\u2019t leave no other want but to hurt her, too. Only you didn\u2019t know how she did it so you never knew how to do it back. Not that you could.  Not that you ever could.  Without being some kind of blasphemous or damned. What with the preachers and the Lord saying what they do about the widows and the blind and her being both&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn\u2019t look at her when I said it. When I said \u201cElsie\u2019s baby done died.\u201d Because there weren\u2019t no point in it. She couldn\u2019t look back. \u201cElsie\u2019s baby?\u201d \u201cYep.\u201d \u201cElsie\u2019s baby done died you say?\u201d \u201cI say.\u201d What I should have said was nothing. \u2018Cause sometimes nothing is all anybody wants to hear. \u201cYou<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}