\u201cI will burn,\u201d says Bahlum. \u201cI will be burning. And I will think, \u2018perhaps this is holy fire. The fire of holy righteousness and second-hand vengeance.\u2019 I will plummet onto the back of a human target. He will stand as totem and proxy to the Mayans. He will scream.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat will he scream?\u201d asks Ixchel. She is almost drooling at the thought of the warmth of being on fire.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Help help!\u2019\u201d Bahlum says. He savors it. \u201c\u2018Somebody. Anybody! A fiery orbital jaguar is using my mass to decelerate from space!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing to be done,\u201d says Chan. \u201cPoor man! It is the righteousness of Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n
In this Chan is incorrect.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not the righteousness of Heaven at all! In fact, it is arguably an act of vice.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know where a magical jaguar in a decaying orbit around the Earth would even get <\/em>the idea that this represents some sort of righteous Heavenly vengeance unless it is letting its personal biases and interests cloud its moral judgment.<\/p>\n The actual righteousness of Heaven isn\u2019t anything like jaguars falling out of orbit. It\u2019s more like \u2014<\/p>\n Like, um, um. Hm. Like \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI will burn,\u201d says Bahlum. \u201cI will be burning. And I will think, \u2018perhaps this is holy fire. The fire of holy righteousness and second-hand vengeance.\u2019 I will plummet onto the back of a human target. He will stand as totem and proxy to the Mayans. He will scream.\u201d \u201cWhat will he scream?\u201d asks Ixchel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-2","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Jaguar_Chained_Small.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/6600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}