{"id":9830,"date":"2026-03-19T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:59:23","slug":"sparkmad-fingertip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/03\/19\/sparkmad-fingertip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkmad Fingertip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the store, checking for the turkey chunks, having the most indigo thoughts alone. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t move to Topanga today, because innocent felines would suffer from my absence. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t self-delete either and for the same reason. <\/p>\n<p>I refilled the water jug and yes, there <em>was<\/em> a single five-dollar piece of bird.<\/p>\n<p>Not as pretty as the ones in the European butcher shops, but it didn&#8217;t hurt my eyes the way they do, with the same burning sensation as the pointless and unwanted tax advice. <\/p>\n<p>I paid for it and took it out to the RME and sat down in the bucket seat. <\/p>\n<p>A hundred feet away there was a parked and empty Mustang. <\/p>\n<p>On the small triangle of window on the rear driver&#8217;s side, there was a message waiting. <\/p>\n<p>It read: <em>Witchy Woman<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who drives the Mustang <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why she&#8217;d put that message out into the world &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or have any idea what her own conception of witchy might be. <\/p>\n<p>But while I&#8217;m trapped here by my own vestigial goodness and wrongness <\/p>\n<p>I will study on it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the store, checking for the turkey chunks, having the most indigo thoughts alone. I can&#8217;t move to Topanga today, because innocent felines would suffer from my absence. I can&#8217;t self-delete either and for the same reason. I refilled the water jug and yes, there was a single five-dollar piece of bird. Not as pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}