Linus doesn\u2019t know about the cleaning man. Not really. Not yet.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t know who will seize Hans\u2019 world, or just whose enemy he\u2019s going to become.<\/p>\n
Not yet.<\/p>\n
All that he knows is that there is something coming \u2014 something worse than a wolf, worse than scissors, worse than Hans or the Devil himself \u2014 and that there is no reason to oppose it, no reason to bother <\/i>opposing it, because there is no thing good in all of life.<\/p>\n
There is no reason to continue.<\/p>\n
Hans is dead; there\u2019s a new covenant now, governing all of the world;<\/p>\n
And Linus sits in his room, and he rocks, and cries, and he is hollowed out thereafter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Linus doesn\u2019t know about the cleaning man. Not really. Not yet. He doesn\u2019t know who will seize Hans\u2019 world, or just whose enemy he\u2019s going to become. Not yet. All that he knows is that there is something coming \u2014 something worse than a wolf, worse than scissors, worse than Hans or the Devil himself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-3","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Icon_PBJ.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}