\u201cWhat\u2019s the footnote?\u201d Linus asks.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuh?\u201d says Tom, powering down his marvelous handheld computing device. Its screen becomes a mirror.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said \u2018(footnote.)\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh,\u201d says Tom. He reflects. \u201cProbably just something about how deadly she is. I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t get the footnotes to work on a touchscreen properly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s weird,\u201d says Linus, after a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have loved the one who will kill us. To have laughed with her; sung with her; danced with her; played with her. To have thought: here is a space woman, a princess-assassin who of all the princess-assassins in the world will look at me and will not judge. And then \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
Linus trails off.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then this.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is a crunch of an alien footstep on the lawn below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWhat\u2019s the footnote?\u201d Linus asks. \u201cHuh?\u201d says Tom, powering down his marvelous handheld computing device. Its screen becomes a mirror. \u201cYou said \u2018(footnote.)\u2019\u201d \u201cOh,\u201d says Tom. He reflects. \u201cProbably just something about how deadly she is. I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t get the footnotes to work on a touchscreen properly.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s weird,\u201d says Linus, after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3850","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\/03\/Square-Linus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","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=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}