{"id":3668,"date":"2009-10-06T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2009\/10\/06\/ondine\/"},"modified":"2009-10-04T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T05:41:44","slug":"ondine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2009\/10\/06\/ondine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ondine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Ondine's Curse is the kind of thing that will never leave my nightmares.\">\n<p>Ondine hasn&#8217;t read a page in three years, can&#8217;t watch television, can&#8217;t daydream.  Can&#8217;t dream at all, actually.  She sleeps in the clutches of the ventilator only when exhausted:  it&#8217;s always fitful, never deep.<\/p>\n<p>How often do you think about breathing?  Music actually helps, she&#8217;s found, as long as the bass is regular and strong.  It&#8217;s when anything takes her out of her head that she has to be careful.<\/p>\n<p>They say it&#8217;s genetic but she knows that&#8217;s wrong.  Curses are a toxic byproduct.  She found love, lost it, realized too late; now she has to will her heart to beat.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ondine hasn&#8217;t read a page in three years, can&#8217;t watch television, can&#8217;t daydream. Can&#8217;t dream at all, actually. She sleeps in the clutches of the ventilator only when exhausted: it&#8217;s always fitful, never deep. How often do you think about breathing? Music actually helps, she&#8217;s found, as long as the bass is regular and strong. [&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":[2237],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ondine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668"}],"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=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}