{"id":14312,"date":"2026-04-14T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14312"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:52:22","slug":"current-mood-vengeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14312","title":{"rendered":"Current Mood: Vengeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the last two movements of Hector\u00a0 Berlioz&#8217; Symphonie Fantastique on heavy replay these past few days, thinking not of the story Berlioz was telling, but imagining a certain fictional kidnapper and murderer getting his comeuppance for fictionally kidnapping and murdering a fictional 13 year old boy. I really should not have re-read parts of that story I threw across the room and tore to shreds back in the day, but I wanted to get some of the details in my alternative version of it correct. It&#8217;s been bothering me ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 -Mary Renault<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.<\/em>&#8221; -Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the last two movements of Hector\u00a0 Berlioz&#8217; Symphonie Fantastique on heavy replay these past few days, thinking not of the story Berlioz was telling, but imagining a certain fictional kidnapper and murderer getting his comeuppance for fictionally kidnapping and murdering a fictional 13 year old boy. I really should not have re-read parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[279],"class_list":["post-14312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-staring-into-the-abyss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14313,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312\/revisions\/14313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}