{"id":3882,"date":"2009-12-18T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T05:34:32","slug":"the-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2009\/12\/18\/the-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Merry Christmas!\">\n<p>There are two possessions of the Dillingham-Youngs in which they both take a mighty pride. One is his gold watch, which was his great-grandfather&#8217;s; the other is her hair.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them, harboring a fond wish for vitality eternal, naturally chooses to invest their soul in a phylactery.  She pours the sands of her life into the gears of his pocketwatch.  While she sleeps, he weaves the strands of his own fate into her tresses.<\/p>\n<p>Their enemies wither before them.  Undying, unliving, the Dillingham-Youngs rule a kingdom of shambling corpses.<\/p>\n<p>They are the wisest.  They are the magi.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two possessions of the Dillingham-Youngs in which they both take a mighty pride. One is his gold watch, which was his great-grandfather&#8217;s; the other is her hair. Each of them, harboring a fond wish for vitality eternal, naturally chooses to invest their soul in a phylactery. She pours the sands of her life [&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":[2361],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dillingham-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882"}],"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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}