{"id":3563,"date":"2013-03-06T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2016-04-07T15:56:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T22:56:25","slug":"3563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":". . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m going to raise you,\u201d she says. \u201cUnless \u2014 you don\u2019t want to? I have a son. He\u2019s going to kill the world too. You\u2019ll get along like cheese and crackers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linus licks his lips.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw your poster.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI \u2014 but \u2014 I\u2019m the antichrist,\u201d he explains. \u201cI wasn\u2019t serious. I wasn\u2019t seriously thinking that you would appear. Besides you don\u2019t look like I imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Linus' imagination. o O<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t

Let us pause here to sketch the woman Linus had imagined:<\/p>\n

\"NotAmelia_noBG\"<\/p>\n

She is at least seven feet tall and has a face like a chip of stone. Her hair is tied back tightly into a bun. She frowns disapprovingly at everything she sees and corsets until not only can she not breathe but her lungs have had to be extracted, like a mummy\u2019s lungs, through her nose. Such a woman would, naturally, listen to his Gothic poetry only out of purest social obligation, but would still thrill \u2014 on some deep level \u2014 to knowing that she was raising, and would eventually be slaughtered by, the antichrist.<\/p>\n

Brunhilda, most likely, would have been her name.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n

\u201cMy name\u2019s Amelia,\u201d Amelia explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m going to raise you,\u201d she says. \u201cUnless \u2014 you don\u2019t want to? I have a son. He\u2019s going to kill the world too. You\u2019ll get along like cheese and crackers.\u201d Linus licks his lips. \u201cI don\u2019t understand,\u201d he says. \u201cI saw your poster.\u201d \u201cI \u2014 but \u2014 I\u2019m the antichrist,\u201d he explains. \u201cI wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3563","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\/Toad_Dotted.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","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=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}