{"id":96,"date":"2006-09-01T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/09\/01\/story-fight-2\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T13:40:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T18:40:46","slug":"story-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/09\/01\/story-fight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Story fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/devilcactus.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"About time he got his own NFD category.\">William<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/where-theres-a.livejournal.com\/4095.html\" title=\"Where, Theresa?\">challenged me<\/a> over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/anacrusis\/2006\/08\/22\/0\" title=\"Miranda is thick.\">Miranda story<\/a>; took a while to figure this out, but I got it.  Your serve, sir.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They don&#8217;t even check whether you&#8217;ve got an emergency shunt or cutout:  either you do or you&#8217;re here <i>because<\/i> you don&#8217;t.  Took Miranda months to find them.  They don&#8217;t exactly advertise.<\/p>\n<p>It smells like smoke and nerves.  &#8220;Ready,&#8221; says the tech, then kicks the starter and scrambles back to his place in the circle.  Miranda&#8217;s already got a sweaty hand in each of hers.  The multiplier cycles up, rattling, as the tech leans forward for a bite of chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Overload.  Miranda gasps in joy, in pain, in joy, in \/<\/p>\n<p>\/ the bathroom, at home, Zeke shakily cuts her ring off his finger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, William challenged me over the Miranda story; took a while to figure this out, but I got it. Your serve, sir. They don&#8217;t even check whether you&#8217;ve got an emergency shunt or cutout: either you do or you&#8217;re here because you don&#8217;t. Took Miranda months to find them. They don&#8217;t exactly advertise. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-william-oneil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}