{"id":1111,"date":"2016-02-29T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/2014-2015\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:22:22","slug":"the-smile-that-stings-by-tsebaot-tilahun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/the-smile-that-stings-by-tsebaot-tilahun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smile That Stings by Tsebaot Tilahun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She enters with a glide, as if her legs were mere phantoms of sticks.<br \/>\n<em>Glide not walk,<br \/>\n<\/em>The utmost impeccable form with a string pulling her<br \/>\nFrom her backbone, up&#8230;up&#8230;up&#8230;to the sky.<br \/>\n<em>Straight form,<br \/>\n<\/em>She curtseys with a graceful bow that puts the swan of The Great Lake to shame.<br \/>\nHead up, chin out, walking as if she were going to the Queen herself.<br \/>\nThen&#8230;.<br \/>\nThen&#8230;<br \/>\nOh what horror!!! What horror!!<br \/>\nThere is no hope! Not a trace of faith in the world.<br \/>\nFor not even Hera could keep this catastrophe at bay.<br \/>\nSlowly but neatly, she does it.<br \/>\nWith a gentle nudge of her upper lips she revs those weapons.<br \/>\n<em>Pearly white.<br \/>\n<\/em>She fires one by one.<br \/>\nUnrelentingly taking out each warrior.<br \/>\nThey are brave but irredeemable from the terrible loss they will soon suffer.<br \/>\nNot a thousand guns nor spears could outlast this weapon.<br \/>\nCling to your husbands! Don&#8217;t let them go! Oh, don&#8217;t you dare!<br \/>\nFor that is when you are doomed to the fate of<br \/>\nBeing the apparition that is his previous visions of love.<br \/>\nHe will not think of you no more when the word<br \/>\n<em>Lovely<\/em> comes to mind.<br \/>\nHe will think of the lady with the stinging smile.<br \/>\nFor if you have the free will and conviction to<br \/>\nPry your gaping eyes from her lovely form, you will see<br \/>\nThe Dead Sea of her eyes, reflecting what is lacking in the heart.<br \/>\nHer previous victims trapped in those soulless pits.<br \/>\nHold fast my dears!! Hold fast!!<br \/>\nEven you cannot help but surrender to<br \/>\nThe smile that stings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She enters with a glide, as if her legs were mere phantoms of sticks. Glide not walk, The utmost impeccable<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/the-smile-that-stings-by-tsebaot-tilahun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Smile That Stings by Tsebaot Tilahun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}