{"id":5165,"date":"2011-05-13T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2011-05-09T21:58:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T05:58:40","slug":"ballistophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2011\/05\/13\/ballistophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballistophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>A story by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krisstraub.com\/\">Kris Straub<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Another bullet struck him, and another, another; now waves of terror tore through him as he clutched his flesh in search of new wounds gushing blood. None.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop,&#8221; he shrieked. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had enough, get me out of here! It works! Please!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the rifle turned to his investors. &#8220;You see. Another few rounds and any combatant becomes a sobbing mess. So it&#8217;s fully non-lethal &#8212; provided the fear ammunition doesn&#8217;t give them a heart attack.&#8221; The group laughed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve found fear to be the most effective round, then?&#8221; one asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost,&#8221; said the man, loading a fresh magazine labeled ENNUI.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story by Kris Straub Another bullet struck him, and another, another; now waves of terror tore through him as he clutched his flesh in search of new wounds gushing blood. None. &#8220;Stop,&#8221; he shrieked. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had enough, get me out of here! It works! Please!&#8221; The man behind the rifle turned to his investors. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165"}],"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=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}