{"id":1257,"date":"2008-06-24T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/06\/24\/reaching-the-west-reaches-8\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T19:50:06","slug":"reaching-the-west-reaches-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/06\/24\/reaching-the-west-reaches-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching the West Reaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching the West Reaches quenches the mended blade, and brackish steam flares up around him, faster than he expected:  brings with it towers and terraces, figures in the mist, screaming, minarets shattered in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Stumble Jade lifts his welder&#8217;s mask to glare.  &#8220;Control, control, you must learn control!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw a city in the clouds,&#8221; says Reaching the West Reaches slowly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the future you see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were in pain.&#8221;  He rubs his head thoughtfully, the scars smoother than they were when he came here, tan blending their edges.  &#8220;Will they die?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Always in motion,&#8221; says Stumble Jade, &#8220;the future.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaching the West Reaches quenches the mended blade, and brackish steam flares up around him, faster than he expected: brings with it towers and terraces, figures in the mist, screaming, minarets shattered in flames. Stumble Jade lifts his welder&#8217;s mask to glare. &#8220;Control, control, you must learn control!&#8221; &#8220;I saw a city in the clouds,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2790,1992],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reaching-the-west-reaches","tag-reaching-the-west-reaches","tag-stumble-jade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}