{"id":5220,"date":"2011-06-01T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2011-05-11T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T04:32:54","slug":"elua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2011\/06\/01\/elua\/","title":{"rendered":"Elua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>A story by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/knitmeapony\">Laurie J Rich<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Elua expected a job with the One World Shadow Government\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 would be conspiracy and magic. Turns out, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of a drag. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the best in the world at anything, they&#8217;ll find you.  She didn&#8217;t hesitate to sign after hearing <i>that<\/i>. They sell you on jobs for spies, historians, authors &#8212; they don&#8217;t mention some are downright mundane. And once you&#8217;re in, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no variety, no advancement, no reprieve.<\/p>\n<p>The pay is great but the contract\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s terrible.  The door beeps and she turns to greet her customer, one hand on the register, smile aching.  Twenty years to retirement, and she feels every minute. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story by Laurie J Rich Elua expected a job with the One World Shadow Government\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 would be conspiracy and magic. Turns out, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of a drag. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the best in the world at anything, they&#8217;ll find you. She didn&#8217;t hesitate to sign after hearing that. They sell you on jobs for spies, [&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":[1324],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220"}],"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=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}