{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Jar of Dirt","home_page_url":"https://ozmatip.com","description":"Jar of Dirt","author":{"name":"Jar of Dirt"},"items":[{"id":"the-animals-were-always-right","html_content":"

They were never just animals.\nThey were always on assignment.\n\nI just did not know who sent them.\n\nThis is a work of fiction.\nNames, characters, and identifying details have been changed to protect the people in these pa...

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-animals-were-always-right","title":"THE ANIMALS WERE ALWAYS RIGHT","date_modified":"2026-04-10T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"despite-it-all","html_content":"

Surviving, etc.

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/despite-it-all","title":"Despite it All","date_modified":"2026-04-09T16:29:38Z"},{"id":"the-menu","html_content":"

The restaurant was dim, expensive, and full of people who thought they were important. Michael had picked it on purpose — the kind of place where the waiters wore vests and nobody raised their voice above a polite murmur...

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-menu","title":"The Menu","date_modified":"2026-04-08T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-laugh-track","html_content":"

It started with the cheese again.\n\nI was standing in the kitchen the next evening, deliberately stacking the provolone like a drunk Jenga tower just to watch him twitch. Michael walked in, saw it, and stopped dead in the...

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-laugh-track","title":"The Laugh Track","date_modified":"2026-04-08T01:26:21Z"},{"id":"still-laughing","html_content":"

It started with the cheese.

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I made it exactly three steps inside the grocery store before I felt it.

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-proof","title":"The Proof","date_modified":"2026-04-06T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-reckoning","html_content":"

I woke up before the sun did, already wet.

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-reckoning","title":"The Reckoning","date_modified":"2026-04-05T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-flood","html_content":"

It started with a look.

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-flood","title":"The Flood","date_modified":"2026-04-03T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-element-of-surprise","html_content":"

I wasn't expecting him home yet.

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-element-of-surprise","title":"The Element of Surprise","date_modified":"2026-04-02T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"what-are-you-gonna-wear","html_content":"

He was sitting on the edge of the bed.

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/what-are-you-gonna-wear","title":"What Are You Gonna Wear","date_modified":"2026-04-01T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-weight-of-almost","html_content":"

I didn't expect him.\n\nThat's the part nobody tells you about — how the ones who change everything don't arrive with any kind of warning. No shift in the air. No goosebumps running up your arms before he walks through the...

","url":"https://ozmatip.com/blog/f/the-weight-of-almost","title":"The Weight of Almost","date_modified":"2026-03-30T16:00:00Z"}]}