\u201cWill you be my antichrist?\u201d asks the Devil, a little uneasily. \u201cWill you be born to take people from their quest for God, to tangle their spirits, to bind them to the material, and eventually to be my flesh and rule an empire of evil things?\u201d<\/p>\n
Linus shrugs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever,\u201d Linus says.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will flourish into damnation,\u201d says the Devil, temptingly. \u201cAnd drag the world down into unholy revelry. You will become an awful flame.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that so?\u201d says Linus, like he\u2019s getting something precious and secret.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s so,\u201d says the Devil.<\/p>\n
Linus looks at him.<\/p>\n
Then Linus shrugs. He snorts out half a laugh. \u201cI guess that\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWill you be my antichrist?\u201d asks the Devil, a little uneasily. \u201cWill you be born to take people from their quest for God, to tangle their spirits, to bind them to the material, and eventually to be my flesh and rule an empire of evil things?\u201d Linus shrugs. \u201cWhatever,\u201d Linus says. \u201cYou will flourish into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3514","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\/2013\/01\/Goat-on-Fire.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}