{"id":5186,"date":"2011-05-19T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2011-05-09T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T06:33:04","slug":"thistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2011\/05\/19\/thistle\/","title":{"rendered":"Thistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>A story by my old friend Wayne Mooney<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thistle fires her shotgun at the Lavender Woman. No recoil. No muzzle flare. <i>Stupid!<\/i> She presses against a pillar, feels bullets strike it. Mint crouches in the narrow gap behind Lincoln&#8217;s marble throne, watching. &#8220;Need shells,&#8221; Thistle signs to her. She spells it out one-handed, her gun clenched in the other. What the girl throws her is too big and pale pink. She frowns, but Mint gestures insistently. She brings the conch to her ear.<\/p>\n<p>Impossibly, she can hear the ocean. And something else&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She knows what she has to do. She drops her gun.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t make a sound.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story by my old friend Wayne Mooney Thistle fires her shotgun at the Lavender Woman. No recoil. No muzzle flare. Stupid! She presses against a pillar, feels bullets strike it. Mint crouches in the narrow gap behind Lincoln&#8217;s marble throne, watching. &#8220;Need shells,&#8221; Thistle signs to her. She spells it out one-handed, her gun [&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":[2687,2688,2686],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mint","tag-the-lavender-woman","tag-thistle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186"}],"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=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}