{"id":271,"date":"2005-09-22T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/09\/22\/271\/"},"modified":"2005-09-22T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T13:15:07","slug":"271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/09\/22\/271\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Anacrusis will be late because the one I was going to put up is just too awful. Too awful. I couldn’t inflict that on my readers.<\/p>\n

Here it is!<\/p>\n

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C H I L I   J O H N<\/p>\n

– – – –<\/p>\n

“I was told we’d be noncombat!” shrieks Lester as he presses up against the trench wall. Phosphorus shells scream and gob-smack.<\/p>\n

“That’s right,” Chili John nods, “you’re the civilian component of Operation Wombat.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, that’s much better,” Lester says. He looks relieved.<\/p>\n

“See that metal-plated monstrosity over there?” Chili John points. “That’s the Tomcat. Your job is to carry some fuel to it–here, use this top hat.”<\/p>\n

Lester scrambles off with the crude naptha. Moments later, he and it are splashed all over the ironside, burning happily.<\/p>\n

“You’re a bad man,” chuckles Moon.<\/p>\n

“Stop that,” Chili John snaps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Anacrusis will be late because the one I was going to put up is just too awful. Too awful. I couldn’t inflict that on my readers. Here it is! C H I L I   J O H N – – – – “I was told we’d be noncombat!” shrieks Lester as he presses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}