{"id":871,"date":"2003-12-12T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2003\/12\/12\/the-cold-man-6\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T02:00:46","slug":"the-cold-man-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2003\/12\/12\/the-cold-man-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold Man can feel the cards tumbling in his head as he runs unaided, every step a guess on broken ground.  He doesn&#8217;t sweat, but he can still smell his own fear.  No doubt he&#8217;s not alone.<\/p>\n<p>He shouldn&#8217;t have to work like this.  They&#8217;ve done something here beyond electric fencing&#8211;he can shrug that off&#8211;and he can&#8217;t get grounded.  He feels the bullet whine past, a soft tug of air.  He&#8217;s probably got ten seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Cards shuffle, wash, flip:  a Lady.  Good, bad&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>At nine seconds he dives, finds the ley trunk, is gone faster than air allows.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold Man can feel the cards tumbling in his head as he runs unaided, every step a guess on broken ground. He doesn&#8217;t sweat, but he can still smell his own fear. No doubt he&#8217;s not alone. He shouldn&#8217;t have to work like this. They&#8217;ve done something here beyond electric fencing&#8211;he can shrug that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rita","tag-the-cold-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"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=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}