But a few minutes later, the Devil notices that something is different.<\/p>\n
. . . Nobody\u2019s been feeding the soldier ants. Nobody\u2019s been touching up the glue.<\/p>\n
A few of the ants are free, actually, and they\u2019re swarming at the edge of Hell. Most of the rest of them are dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, my,\u201d the Devil says, burning through a swathe of net.<\/p>\n
He laughs like he\u2019d laughed when he first got out of the orange tree Hans had trapped him in; when he\u2019d untied his tail from the knot Hans had looped it in; like he\u2019d laughed every other time he\u2019d put one over on his great enemy, the svart-elf Hans, but \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
But a few minutes later, the Devil notices that something is different. . . . Nobody\u2019s been feeding the soldier ants. Nobody\u2019s been touching up the glue. A few of the ants are free, actually, and they\u2019re swarming at the edge of Hell. Most of the rest of them are dead. \u201cOh, my,\u201d the Devil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-4","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Looming-Goat-e1344352690849.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}