{"id":2674,"date":"2012-12-21T03:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2016-04-07T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T22:59:29","slug":"13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=2674","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; 13 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='et-dropcap' style=\"font-size: 48px; color: #9D2727;\">O<\/span>n December 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar runs down. The age of Hans \u2014 according to the calculations of the Mayan sorcerer-sages \u2014 is over.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody tells Hans, so he doesn\u2019t expire.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody tells the jaguars, or their decaying orbit, either, so they don\u2019t finish up their fall.<\/p>\n<p>Ixchel circles the earth, and muses, chewing on the remnant of a seraph\u2019s wing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not,\u201d she says, \u201cI mean, I don\u2019t think, I mean, I\u2019m not going to catch on fire. Either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh?\u201d says Yohl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to roll up into a ball to minimize my surface area,\u201d Ixchel says. \u201cinstead. And think cold thoughts. Then I will warm up, but I will not catch on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat should work,\u201d agrees Bahlum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah. It should,\u201d confirms the jaguar named Chan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n December 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar runs down. The age of Hans \u2014 according to the calculations of the Mayan sorcerer-sages \u2014 is over. Nobody tells Hans, so he doesn\u2019t expire. Nobody tells the jaguars, or their decaying orbit, either, so they don\u2019t finish up their fall. Ixchel circles the earth, and muses, chewing [&hellip;]<\/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-2674","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\/2674","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=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/6548"}],"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=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}