{"id":4317,"date":"2010-06-16T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T07:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2010-06-22T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T05:49:37","slug":"almond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/06\/16\/almond\/","title":{"rendered":"Almond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"'Kids are the hope bombs we lob into the unknowable future, and not for ourselves alone, but for everyone we love and have loved.' --Rachel Chalmers\">\n<p>Almond spends the summer of her parents&#8217; separation at her aunt and uncle&#8217;s house in Broadwing, and in the attic there&#8211;hot, close, bright with dust motes&#8211;she finds the magic knucklebone that whips her back in time to their adventures as headlong, dangerous young conjurors.  The moral is about how you can&#8217;t summon up the people you really miss.  Almond resents that, and (decades later) subsumes fear about her own marriage until she turns into a pretty frightening sorceress herself.  The kid she hasn&#8217;t had yet has to show up to save the world; but then, that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re for.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almond spends the summer of her parents&#8217; separation at her aunt and uncle&#8217;s house in Broadwing, and in the attic there&#8211;hot, close, bright with dust motes&#8211;she finds the magic knucklebone that whips her back in time to their adventures as headlong, dangerous young conjurors. The moral is about how you can&#8217;t summon up the people [&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":[2439],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-almond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317"}],"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=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}