When editor Stephen Jones asked for an essay about a ghostly encounter I may have had, I instead delivered a piece about how anyone else leading my charmed life would sure believe a guardian angel must be watching over him … so why didn’t I? <\/p>\n
What I wrote first appeared in Czech in 1998 under the title “Někdo tam nahoře mě má — asi… snad …. (možná ) — rád” and only later in English as “Somebody Up There, Maybe, Perhaps, Likes Me. (I Think.)” in my first collection, These Words Are Haunted<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When editor Stephen Jones asked for an essay about a ghostly encounter I may have had, I instead delivered a piece about how anyone else leading my charmed life would sure believe a guardian angel must be watching over him … so why didn’t I? What I wrote first appeared in Czech in 1998 under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1373,"parent":818,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1371","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}