{"id":3641,"date":"2009-09-25T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2009-09-23T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T18:26:22","slug":"madame-cruelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2009\/09\/25\/madame-cruelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Cruelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"For the five of you who noticed when this accidentally went up two days early:  sorry!\">\n<p>Certain types of people can withstand spectacular amounts of punishment without sustaining any permanent damage, which makes Madam Cruelle&#8217;s job easy to the point of boredom.<\/p>\n<p>The little bald man currently paying for her services wears only handcuffs, a hunting cap, and an array of steel-toothed bear traps; she wears the bunny-ear headband on which he insists.  His face is soot-blackened and he&#8217;s missing teeth.  It&#8217;s the same thing every week, she reflects, and yet he&#8217;s always eager to start again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you been bad?&#8221; she asks, almost disinterested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Vewy<\/i> bad,&#8221; he gasps, before she drops the anvil.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain types of people can withstand spectacular amounts of punishment without sustaining any permanent damage, which makes Madam Cruelle&#8217;s job easy to the point of boredom. The little bald man currently paying for her services wears only handcuffs, a hunting cap, and an array of steel-toothed bear traps; she wears the bunny-ear headband on which [&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":[2226],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-madame-cruelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641"}],"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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}