{"id":4549,"date":"2010-09-02T15:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/09\/02\/ashlock-5\/"},"modified":"2010-09-02T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:32:53","slug":"ashlock-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2010\/09\/02\/ashlock-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phosporescent hexadecimal scrolls through Ashlock&#8217;s dreams.<\/p>\n<p>When she wakes, the chronometer pulses 3:44. Cold water on her face, her boots, her jacket.  She&#8217;s out pacing the mist-wreathed docks by a sliver of moon.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody nice is out at this hour, but they don&#8217;t hassle Ashlock (she does kung fu).  Down a wharf, she kicks splinters into jetsam.<\/p>\n<p>This was an easy job:  they should have come out with cash, not data.  They&#8217;re lazy sometimes, arrogant, but not stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody dumbed it up for them.<\/p>\n<p>Styrofoam hunks bob around the pylon, striped with broken barcodes.  Hexadecimal teases Ashlock, just out of reach.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phosporescent hexadecimal scrolls through Ashlock&#8217;s dreams. When she wakes, the chronometer pulses 3:44. Cold water on her face, her boots, her jacket. She&#8217;s out pacing the mist-wreathed docks by a sliver of moon. Nobody nice is out at this hour, but they don&#8217;t hassle Ashlock (she does kung fu). Down a wharf, she kicks splinters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2303],"tags":[2797],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashlock","tag-ashlock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549"}],"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=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}