{"id":587,"date":"2005-01-31T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T14:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/01\/31\/machine\/"},"modified":"2009-05-25T21:41:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T05:41:45","slug":"machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/01\/31\/machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Machine leans on his remaining chainsaw and shudders.  His servos are dying.  The Maiden appears before him, holding her simple sword.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I destroyed your home,&#8221; he grinds.  &#8220;I slaughtered innocents to draw you out, but you I cannot touch.  Now I decay, and I cannot stop hunting you!  Why not end this?  Why do you only watch?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Observation changes the thing observed,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I can&#8217;t change you!&#8221;  His dorsal flamethrowers belch frustration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I must be nothing,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Machine understands, then.  &#8220;I wish,&#8221; he groans,  &#8220;to destroy nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She nods.  Machine&#8217;s cameras flicker, and go dark at last.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machine leans on his remaining chainsaw and shudders. His servos are dying. The Maiden appears before him, holding her simple sword. &#8220;I destroyed your home,&#8221; he grinds. &#8220;I slaughtered innocents to draw you out, but you I cannot touch. Now I decay, and I cannot stop hunting you! Why not end this? Why do you [&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":[917,916],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-machine","tag-maiden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}