{"id":1322,"date":"2019-08-26T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:01:09","slug":"eyes-in-the-back-of-her-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Eyes In The Back Of Her Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1323\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack-300x291.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack-768x745.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack-1024x994.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mom always said she had eyes in the back of her head.\u00a0 I always thought she was joking, but still, I never could get away with anything behind her back.\u00a0 It was uncanny.\u00a0 She was just really clever, right?\u00a0 She KNEW me so well she could always tell what I was up to&#8230;..right?\u00a0 WRONG!!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday she pulled me aside, angry that I tracked mud through her kitchen right behind her back and blamed my little sister for it.\u00a0 She parted the neat bun of hair and curlers behind her ears to reveal a creepy set of eyes.\u00a0 Wow! (did NOT see that coming) My knees gave out and I sat down hard in the puddle of mud on the floor.\u00a0 As if that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, I saw a hairy nose there too&#8230;but when a bearded mouth opened wide and berated me with the colorful expletives of a drunken sailor at the volume of a drill sergeant on parade&#8230;well, let&#8217;s just say that I suddenly had more to mop off the floor than a muddy set of footprints.\u00a0 (True story.)<\/p>\n<p><em>***Another excerpt from our new book (our 4th book), &#8220;A Short Burst&#8221;&#8230;a collection of short, intense, flash science fiction.\u00a0 Find (and buy) all our books at www.sallemander.com.\u00a0 \u00a0-Marsha\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom always said she had eyes in the back of her head.\u00a0 I always thought she was joking, but still, I never could get away with anything behind her back.\u00a0 It was uncanny.\u00a0 She was just really clever, right?\u00a0 She KNEW me so well she could always tell what I was up to&#8230;..right?\u00a0 WRONG!! Yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eyes In The Back Of Her Head<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,150,124],"tags":[210,105,248,38,176,99,19,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}