{"id":3569,"date":"2026-08-16T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:10:29","slug":"saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">God saved his life, they said. The Miracle on Flight PS91.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">He wasn\u2019t so sure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">Why should he be the only survivor of the plane crash that killed all on board save one? What higher purpose did God spare him for? Why was his life of more value than anyone else on the plane?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">Why did children die? And mothers. And families.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">For many months he wrestled with these questions, to no avail. Surely, if God saved him then, God could save him now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">He stepped to the edge of the bridge, looked at the water far below, and jumped.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\">100-word micro-fiction, a Drabble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God saved his life, they said. The Miracle on Flight PS91.&nbsp; He wasn\u2019t so sure.&nbsp; Why should he be the only survivor of the plane crash that killed all on board save one? What higher purpose did God spare him for? Why was his life of more value than anyone else on the plane?&nbsp; Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,25],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama-literary","category-psychological","tag-drabble"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Saved_bridge_bright.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4019,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/4019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}