{"id":449,"date":"2007-07-04T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=449"},"modified":"2007-07-04T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T00:24:00","slug":"2007-07-05-dogkiller-wifebeater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-07-05-dogkiller-wifebeater\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/719921553\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1429\/719921553_a89c8d3319.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/719921553\/\">2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tI know someone whose husband beat her systematically for around 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>She left him.<\/p>\n<p>He phoned her the other day, sobbing like I&#8217;ve never heard anyone sob before. <\/p>\n<p>It sounded like a woman on the other end. The woman whose ex-husband it was couldn&#8217;t work out who was on the phone. She thought it sounded like the wifebeater&#8217;s sister. <\/p>\n<p>She was kinda thinking that it was news of the wifebeater&#8217;s suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide was on the cards cos the wifebeater had threatened to kill his wife, her family, the dogs, and himself if she ever left him.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, he hadn&#8217;t committed suicide. It was him on the phone. Instead of committing suicide, he had committed murder.<\/p>\n<p>His story is that he mistakenly let the dog get out of the gate. And it ran into the road. And was hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>His hysteria suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case &#8212; at best, his negligence allowed their dog to be killed; at worst, he drove over the sweet little angel himself.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows the real story?<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting was made in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.2<\/a>, on my Toshiba Tecra M4. Unfortunately, the dog (that&#8217;s the animal on the top left) was injured in the making of this pic. And died. Shame on the wifebeater. Bad boy!<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I know someone whose husband beat her systematically for around 23 years. She left him. He phoned her the other day, sobbing like I&#8217;ve never heard anyone sob before. It sounded like a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-07-05-dogkiller-wifebeater\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-7f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}