{"id":1667,"date":"2009-10-03T16:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2010-01-22T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:53:51","slug":"beautiful-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Beautiful People<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>by Robert Fenhagen (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back, and remembering the Beatles&#8217; song from back in the day, was one of the ways that he spent his endless hours, playing it over and over again in his mind as he wandered the filthy streets of Philadelphia; the words in his memory sang in the falsetto:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does it feel to be one of the buu-tee-full pee-pull?\u00a0\u00a0What did you see when you were there?\u00a0\u00a0Nothing that doesn\u2019t show\u2026..\u201d\u00a0<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Passing by the ally, he wandered into it &#8212; passing three dented and stinking trash cans, one dead cat and one dead rat.<\/p>\n<p>He felt dead himself.<\/p>\n<p>He was not one of the beautiful people; he couldn\u2019t be, could he?<\/p>\n<p>He kicked an empty can of Brown\u2019s Baked Beans, and it ricocheted off a blackened, dirty red brick wall, eventually rolling\u00a0\u00a0back, and coming to rest against a rotten stalk of celery that was providing nutrition for a healthy white grub worm, which was being watched by a hawk flying overhead.<\/p>\n<p>The grub contracted violently at the clanging can, but after a moment stretched out and continued, never realizing that it was doomed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A maggot ran out and scurried away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u2018Good riddance\u2019 He thought.<\/p>\n<p>He had watched the white worm contract, but soon relax.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Leaning down, he plucked it up and brought it to his face to look closer, and then put it back.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hawk noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Fenhagen (USA) \u00a0 \u201cHow does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?\u201d Thinking back, and remembering the Beatles&#8217; song from back in the day, was one of the ways that he spent his endless hours, playing it over and over again in his mind as he wandered the filthy streets of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[310,22],"tags":[1131,1123,25,1116],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-24","category-short-story","tag-egophobia-24","tag-english","tag-robert-fenhagen","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-qT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}