{"id":1847,"date":"2021-07-05T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T13:48:37","slug":"eyes-in-the-back-of-her-head-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Eyes in the Back of Her HEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"994\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/01-AAA-EyesInTheBack-1024x994.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1323\" srcset=\"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-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.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mom always said she had eyes in the back of her head.&nbsp; I always thought she was joking, but still, I never could get away with anything behind her back.&nbsp; It was uncanny.&nbsp; She was just really clever, right?&nbsp; She KNEW me so well she could always tell what I was up to\u2026..right?&nbsp; WRONG!!<\/p>\n\n\n\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.&nbsp; She parted the neat bun of hair and curlers behind her ears to reveal a creepy set of eyes.&nbsp; Wow! (did NOT see that coming) My knees gave out and I sat down hard in the puddle of mud on the floor.&nbsp; As if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, I saw a hairy nose there too\u2026but 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\u2026well, let\u2019s just say that I suddenly had more to mop off the floor than a muddy set of footprints.&nbsp; (True story.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>***Another excerpt from our latest book (our 4th book), \u201cA Short Burst\u201d\u2026a collection of short, intense, flash science fiction.&nbsp; Find (and buy) all our books at our Etsy shop.  Follow the links at www.sallemander.com or search EEWbooks at www.etsy.com.&nbsp; &nbsp;-Marsha&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom always said she had eyes in the back of her head.&nbsp; I always thought she was joking, but still, I never could get away with anything behind her back.&nbsp; It was uncanny.&nbsp; She was just really clever, right?&nbsp; She KNEW me so well she could always tell what I was up to\u2026..right?&nbsp; WRONG!! Yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847\" 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":[268,38,176,99,256,249,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"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=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}