{"id":30,"date":"2007-03-20T04:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/03\/20\/costas\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T22:24:25","slug":"costas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/03\/20\/costas\/","title":{"rendered":"Costas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whatsits,&#8221; says Costas, giddy on his fourth glass.  &#8220;Exponents!  Even if they only feed once a month, well, boom, thirty months and &#8216;smore than the population of the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s your mathematical disproof of vampires?&#8221; asks Schreck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good enough for Internets,&#8221; winks Costas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those assumptions, though,&#8221; says Schreck.  &#8220;Even in Stoker, it takes months to turn a victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Costas shrugs.  &#8220;<i>Exponents,<\/i>&#8221; he says.  &#8220;Say it takes a year.  A decade!&#8221;  He doodles sums.  &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s bloodsuckers by about&#8230;  uh&#8230;  last June.&#8221;  The whole bar is staring.  &#8220;And I&#8217;m not,&#8221; he adds uneasily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been waiting,&#8221; drools Schreck, &#8220;for someone to say that.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whatsits,&#8221; says Costas, giddy on his fourth glass. &#8220;Exponents! Even if they only feed once a month, well, boom, thirty months and &#8216;smore than the population of the planet.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s your mathematical disproof of vampires?&#8221; asks Schreck. &#8220;Good enough for Internets,&#8221; winks Costas. &#8220;Those assumptions, though,&#8221; says Schreck. &#8220;Even in Stoker, it takes months to [&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":[1669,1670],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-costas","tag-schreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}