{"id":524,"date":"2014-07-29T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/?p=524"},"modified":"2014-07-28T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T23:33:25","slug":"forty-three-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Forty-three (teaser)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat the bloody <em>hell<\/em>, Seph?\u201d Ben\u2019s gaze bounced between Sephora and Padraig wildly, like a ball kicked between two teenage futbol players. \u201cSomeone blew up the girl\u2019s house? How did no one hear about this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their waitress swooped over with a towel to clean up the mess. Ben snatched the towel from her hand. \u201cWe\u2019ve got it,\u201d he snapped her. \u201cBring me another in five minutes and make yourself unseen until then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girl went white and retreated. Sephora winced and reached for the towel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou didn\u2019t need to\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He relinquished the towel but not his anger. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t it hit the newsnets?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho the hell knows,\u201d Padraig growled, glaring at his own glass for a moment before he watched Ben mop up the mess of whiskey and shattered glass from the tabletop. \u201cFar be it for me to say, but probably conglom suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs she still <em>here<\/em>?\u201d Ben asked, freezing in the midst of cleaning up the mess. \u201cIs she somewhere safe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sephora glanced at Padraig, brow arching in question. Padraig exhaled quietly, leaning back in his chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe left on a transport for E-557 last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Foundation? You must be desperate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sephora put her hand on her estranged husband\u2019s arm. \u201cThey may have finally gotten things right, Ben. They might <em>be<\/em> our only hope\u2014the last refuge of the lost and desperate, of the ones who have nothing left to believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned next week for the continuation of Chapter 43&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat the bloody hell, Seph?\u201d Ben\u2019s gaze bounced between Sephora and Padraig wildly, like a ball kicked between two teenage futbol players. \u201cSomeone blew up the girl\u2019s house? How did no one hear about this?\u201d Their waitress swooped over with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/?p=524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-two-ashes-to-ashes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25yjF-8s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.embklitzke.com\/e557\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}