{"id":2755,"date":"2015-11-07T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2022-06-23T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T22:13:04","slug":"almost-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/short-stories\/almost-midnight.htm","title":{"rendered":"Almost Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/novellas\/almost-midnight.htm\" target=\"_self\" name=\"Almost Midnight by J. Kuzmier -- photo by John B. at JohnBdigital.com\" title=\"Almost Midnight by J. Kuzmier -- photo by John B. at JohnBdigital.com\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/almost-midnight.jpg\" alt=\"Almost Midnight by J. Kuzmier --  photo by John B. at JohnBdigital.com\" title=\"Almost Midnight --  photo by John B. at JohnBdigital.com\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\"  \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0B4VCT9RC\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Now available for purchase as an e-book on Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s almost midnight here on death row.  At any moment now, my time on this earth may be up for good. <\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The law saved his life once.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the law has come to take it away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the clock strikes midnight on life\u2019s clock, some fairy tales end in tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Or it measures the end of a day that never saw the light.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of a new day, will it come after the clock strikes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fate has a way of claiming her dues.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now available for purchase as an e-book on Amazon! It\u2019s almost midnight here on death row. At any moment now, my time on this earth may be up for good. The law saved his life once. But now, the law has come to take it away. When the clock strikes midnight on life\u2019s clock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"views":9093,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkuzmier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}