{"id":818,"date":"2004-03-03T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2004\/03\/03\/halley\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T05:56:30","slug":"halley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2004\/03\/03\/halley\/","title":{"rendered":"Halley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halley knows nobody comes through this part of the library&#8211;that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s here, in fact, to find a free computer&#8211;so he&#8217;s surprised to see so many chairs in the Bingham Reading Room.  It looks like they actually had a reading, except he can&#8217;t remember any such announcement.<\/p>\n<p>He imagines a lonely janitor, gesticulating for an invisible audience.  He imagines ghosts settling their cold-jelly bones, drinking ethereal tea.  He imagines Long Huo, Chair Herder, ushering his charges to new pastures.<\/p>\n<p>Halley laughs at himself and heads to the computer.<\/p>\n<p>After a fierce debate, the chairs vote to have him killed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halley knows nobody comes through this part of the library&#8211;that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s here, in fact, to find a free computer&#8211;so he&#8217;s surprised to see so many chairs in the Bingham Reading Room. It looks like they actually had a reading, except he can&#8217;t remember any such announcement. He imagines a lonely janitor, gesticulating for an [&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":[544,545],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-halley","tag-long-huo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}