{"id":965,"date":"2007-05-22T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/05\/22\/zach-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:12:29","slug":"zach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/05\/22\/zach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"By popular demand.\">\n<p>&#8220;Listen, I wanted that contract myself,&#8221; confides Hidebound, &#8220;but no hard feelings.  You ready to train?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guess I&#8217;d better be,&#8221; says Zach.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is intense:  six hand-to-hand disciplines, melee, revolvers, semiautos, full assault.  Stealth courses.  Endurance.  Zach learns to use ten grades of plastique, and how to roll with the shockwave; he learns urban camo and marksmanship.  He learns how to kill with his pinky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re done,&#8221; he says, finally.<\/p>\n<p>Hidebound smiles.  &#8220;I think you&#8217;re right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zach checks his watch.  &#8220;And I can&#8217;t believe it only took two hours!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re a natural,&#8221; says Hidebound, smiling wider.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Listen, I wanted that contract myself,&#8221; confides Hidebound, &#8220;but no hard feelings. You ready to train?&#8221; &#8220;Guess I&#8217;d better be,&#8221; says Zach. What follows is intense: six hand-to-hand disciplines, melee, revolvers, semiautos, full assault. Stealth courses. Endurance. Zach learns to use ten grades of plastique, and how to roll with the shockwave; he learns urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1725,2788],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zach","tag-hidebound","tag-zach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}