{"id":2846,"date":"2025-06-05T23:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2025-09-18T21:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:01:33","slug":"dogman-jose-and-the-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/dogman-jose-and-the-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGMAN, JOSE, AND THE ZOMBIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1287\" height=\"741\" src=\"https:\/\/semigod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/crackhouse-semigod.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2847\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>the zombies flocked to this house &#8211; google map screenshot from 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EVERYONE CALLS MIKE &#8220;DOGMAN.&#8221;<br>THE STRAY DOGS FLOCK TO HIM.<br>WHEN HE GETS UP FROM HIS PLACE, THE DOGS FOLLOW HIM.<br>I SEE HIM ACROSS GAGE AVENUE.<br>A WHILE BACK, HIS TOE GOT INFECTED.<br>HE NOW WALKS LIKE HE&#8217;S STEPPING ON THIN ICE.<br>DOGMAN IS TALL AND SKINNY.<br>HIS PANTS ARE TOO SHORT FOR HIS LEGS.<br>HE LOOKS SO DETERMINED AS HE WALKS\u2014EVERY STEP IS TAKEN WITH PURPOSE.<br>HE REACHES THE CRACK HOUSE&#8230;<br>HIS EXPRESSION DOES NOT CHANGE WHEN HE SEES JOSE IS NOT HOME.<br>DOGMAN WALKS AWAY TO THE CRACK HOUSE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JOSE MUST MAKE A LOT OF FUCKING SPARE CHANGE.<br>HE LIVES ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME WITH HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER, AND TWO SONS.<br>A RUSTED CHAIN-LINK FENCE GUARDS THE ENTRANCE TO HIS HOME.<br>THE ENTRANCE TO HIS HOME IS SECURED BEHIND A BLACK STEEL-MESHED DOOR WITH A SLOT NEAR THE DOOR HANDLE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALL THE ZOMBIES WALK TO HIS FRONT DOOR.<br>EVERY.<br>SINGLE.<br>DAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I SEE MYSELF CROSSING THE STREET, AS IF FROM ABOVE.<br>MY HEART POUNDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALL THE ZOMBIES WALK TO HIS FRONT DOOR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>stories from my time in south central &#8211; 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.semigod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is semigod-tab-big-BLACK-STRIP.png\" class=\"wp-image-1868\" style=\"width:102px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2021<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.semigod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/semigod-tab-big-BLACK.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-390\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the zombies flocked to this house &#8211; google map screenshot from 2012&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tbt_post_transparent":"","_tbt_post_title":"","_tbt_post_layout":"","_tbt_post_sidebar_id":"","_tbt_post_content_style":"","_tbt_post_vertical_padding":"","_tbt_post_feature":"","_tbt_post_feature_position":"","_tbt_post_header":false,"_tbt_post_footer":false},"categories":[27,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google-maps","category-storytellin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semigod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}