

{"id":49,"date":"2018-02-08T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2018-02-25T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T03:38:57","slug":"kerry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-127 alignleft aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/files\/2018\/02\/IMG_0961-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123 alignright aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/files\/2018\/02\/A9B5D700-F4D1-4AF9-B887-25F2BE2E790E-1-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/files\/2018\/02\/fullsizeoutput_cb5-300x255.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prosperity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201c&#8230; and that is why I am the most important of the three of us. Without me, it would be almost impossible to have you two.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shade 1<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cI concur absolutely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Law<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cAnd who would you be?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shade 2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cWe are shades, damned to the underworld for our unholy deeds in life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shade 3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cSinners all three of us, of different degrees and magnitudes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S1<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cWe couldn\u2019t help but overhear the interesting conversation going on over there on your pedestal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Power<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cWe were having our age-old debate: which of the three of us are valued most. I like to let these two think they might win every once in a while, it adds some excitement to these monotonous days. However, we all know that it is I, Power, that humans value most.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S2<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cYou couldn\u2019t be more correct! In fact, love of power above all else is the reason I was damned. I remember with such fondness how I was able to control the destiny of others, how much control I had! There were a great many shades like me in that dark pit, damned to a fate worse than most.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S1<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cThe stars above are such a welcome sight. Such a change from the dark depths of the earth. If only we were to have cherished our numbered days while we still lived, we may have avoided this grim fate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">L<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cWait, wait, that\u2019s utter nonsense. Law should be what the people uphold above all. I am obviously the most important. Society wouldn\u2019t be able to function without me!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cLaw is the very thing that has damned us all. It is at the heart of every punishment that we face. I abhor the laws and the lawmaker that sent me to my doom below, as I\u2019m sure the rest of my fellow shades do as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cSee, Law, you aren\u2019t as important as you wish to be. As I was saying before, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> am what these humans value most. Look at all of the souls damned for eternity for their love of money! Obviously Prosperity is most important in their hearts!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S1<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cI am one of those souls you speak of. During my lifetime I saved every penny I earned, even those that I gained through no honest work. Any money that passed to my hands was immediately kept. It was a wonderful life, hoarding so much that my purse was never light.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Po<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cPlease, what you all were really after was Power!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">L<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cAnd yet another abuser of the Law, that they should be upholding! I have never seen such absolute mockery of the most important of human rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cJudgement Day will come eventually for all of us, Law &#8211; then will you see your cause triumph above all. Humanity is for now occupied in fulfilling their every whimsical desire, no matter how detrimental to their fate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cThe pursuit of Prosperity is not a \u2018whimsical desire!\u2019 I am outraged at the suggestion. Although many trek far from the honest path, it is an honorable life to lead!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Po<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cI will not masquerade as a pursuit for honest men, as Prosperity does. Those that want and pursue Power above all else must be willing to use every resource available to them, they must go the extra mile into dangerous territory, no matter what the consequences would be in their afterlife. May are aware their deeds are wrong in nature, yet they pursue them without faltering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">L<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cAm I the only truly honest pursuit here? The only honest one in company of sinners and the damned? To spend eternity trapped on this pedestal with you is surely its own Hell!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Prosperity: \u201c&#8230; and that is why I am the most important of the three of us. Without me, it would be almost impossible to have you two.\u201d Shade 1: \u201cI concur absolutely.\u201d Law: \u201cAnd who would you be?\u201d Shade 2: \u201cWe are shades, damned to the underworld for our unholy deeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":750,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ghosttown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}