{"id":138,"date":"2006-10-19T07:14:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/10\/19\/toe\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T05:47:56","slug":"toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2006\/10\/19\/toe\/","title":{"rendered":"Toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midnight in the park and he&#8217;s lost his damn gun.  &#8220;No,&#8221; he whispers, fumbling in the tall grass.  &#8220;No!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They step out from the trees.  He&#8217;s surrounded.  &#8220;First blood,&#8221; Tyler sighs.<\/p>\n<p>Silently and without surprise, Toe realizes it worked.  Options rise to his mind like bubbles:  aikido, varma kalai, banshay, systema.  Systems.  A hidden layer of the world, glyphs of potential and force.  But most importantly&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know kung fu,&#8221; he murmurs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prove it,&#8221; grins Alex.<\/p>\n<p>Their NERF revolvers rise, not in slow motion, but with the fat predictability of fastballs over the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Toe unclips the lightsaber at his belt.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midnight in the park and he&#8217;s lost his damn gun. &#8220;No,&#8221; he whispers, fumbling in the tall grass. &#8220;No!&#8221; They step out from the trees. He&#8217;s surrounded. &#8220;First blood,&#8221; Tyler sighs. Silently and without surprise, Toe realizes it worked. Options rise to his mind like bubbles: aikido, varma kalai, banshay, systema. Systems. A hidden layer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[247,245,244],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-chosen-ones","tag-alex","tag-toe","tag-tyler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}