{"id":153,"date":"2016-06-29T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-06-29T17:05:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:05:43","slug":"conversation-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Conversation and action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tomas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How is the quarry?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s hardly come out of the hotel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you certain?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the people inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He might be able to become invisible, or become like another person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s only come out to see some of the tourist traps and bookstores.&#8221; Pause. &#8220;Did you find him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, and he has an adopted son that I&#8217;m working with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you going to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to do anything. I want to see what he is now. According to the papers, he doesn&#8217;t have the sword anymore.\u00a0In the meantime, I have his son.&#8221; Pause. &#8220;I want you to approach the quarry. Find out what he wants. Offer him terms if you have to. Get him to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And try not to die, Thomas. I&#8217;m not there to raise you up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tomas?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221; &#8220;How is the quarry?&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;s hardly come out of the hotel.&#8221; &#8220;Are you certain?&#8221; &#8220;We have the people inside.&#8221; &#8220;He might be able to become invisible, or become like another person.&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;s only come out to see some of the tourist traps and bookstores.&#8221; Pause. &#8220;Did you&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/?p=153\"> 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":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/800words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}