{"id":1371,"date":"2008-11-25T22:28:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/11\/25\/the-princess-leaves-2\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T17:44:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:44:28","slug":"the-princess-leaves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/11\/25\/the-princess-leaves-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Princess Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Burning Armory is four fathoms tall and its stubby fingers are pierced with sharpened bone.  Its half-blind eye searches out the Princess Leaves as she coughs sand and struggles to her feet; above, Dog Shouting grips the pit&#8217;s edge, and the Papa Bosom&#8217;s mottled crew cheer and place bets.<\/p>\n<p>Very few of the bets are in her favor.<\/p>\n<p>The Armory snacks on a guard-turned-victim, and the Princess closes her eyes.  The Wish Power is with her.  The enormous portcullis rises; the Armory tries to follow her under it; the portcullis falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh dear,&#8221; says Blow the Skin.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burning Armory is four fathoms tall and its stubby fingers are pierced with sharpened bone. Its half-blind eye searches out the Princess Leaves as she coughs sand and struggles to her feet; above, Dog Shouting grips the pit&#8217;s edge, and the Papa Bosom&#8217;s mottled crew cheer and place bets. Very few of the bets [&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":[351,352,353,349,350],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reaching-the-west-reaches","tag-blow-the-skin","tag-dog-shouting","tag-papa-bosom","tag-the-burning-armory","tag-the-princess-leaves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"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=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}