{"id":1393,"date":"2008-12-25T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T03:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/12\/25\/drosselmeier-4\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:37:36","slug":"drosselmeier-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2008\/12\/25\/drosselmeier-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Drosselmeier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As it happens,&#8221; the queen said with a devilish twist to her mouth, &#8220;we have a clock we&#8217;d very much like to hear again.  Shall we place a wager on it, rabble-rouser?  Fix her, and I&#8217;ll exile you, perfectly healthy; fail, and your poor accomplice the astronomer dies by your side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Drosselmeier was not the kind of man to gamble with his best friend&#8217;s life.  With Master Longtail at work, though, that execution was as assured as his own.  &#8220;Your Majesty,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I accept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drosselmeier heard squeaking laughter from beneath the floor.  &#8220;You have until morning,&#8221; smiled the queen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As it happens,&#8221; the queen said with a devilish twist to her mouth, &#8220;we have a clock we&#8217;d very much like to hear again. Shall we place a wager on it, rabble-rouser? Fix her, and I&#8217;ll exile you, perfectly healthy; fail, and your poor accomplice the astronomer dies by your side.&#8221; Now, Drosselmeier was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[2793,329,330],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drosselmeier","tag-drosselmeier","tag-master-longtail","tag-the-pistachio-queen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}