{"id":2577,"date":"2009-06-15T07:40:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2009-06-15T07:40:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T15:40:49","slug":"macguffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2009\/06\/15\/macguffin\/","title":{"rendered":"MacGuffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Ape, with Tangerine<\/i> arrives in London with tags marking it as passenger luggage from the nonexistent <i>China Moon.<\/i>  An overenthusiastic cargo master misdirects it onto a train bound for Cornwall.  Before reaching that destination it is seized, marked as salvage, fraudulently claimed, transferred, seized again, rejected, quarantined and finally shelved in the physical equivalent of &#8220;I&#8217;ll think about that on Tuesday:&#8221;  a warehouse in tax distraint.  All this before the statue is even uncrated.<\/p>\n<p>It is not until the complex and unhappy responsibilities befalling one Mr. P. F. MacGuffin cause him to retrieve <i>Ape, with Tangerine<\/i> that our story properly begins.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ape, with Tangerine arrives in London with tags marking it as passenger luggage from the nonexistent China Moon. An overenthusiastic cargo master misdirects it onto a train bound for Cornwall. Before reaching that destination it is seized, marked as salvage, fraudulently claimed, transferred, seized again, rejected, quarantined and finally shelved in the physical equivalent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1285],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-macguffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"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=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}