\u201cIf I were a goat, \u201d Martin says, and he reaches skywards. He looks up. \u201cI\u2019d cut you, God. I\u2019d slice you raw. I\u2019d peel apart the endless hungry void.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGoats don\u2019t do that,\u201d observes Jane.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s his sister. Well, his adoptive sister. Well, the girl he found in the pantry. Really, there is no good way to summarize their relationship.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s sitting on a stool, drinking milk through a straw.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome<\/em> goats might\u2019n,\u201d Martin argues. He doesn\u2019t clarify what the \u2019n is an abbreviation for so we are going to have to assume it stands for \u201cnavigate starships.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf I were a goat,\u201d Jane says thoughtfully, gesturing to denote a grand vision, \u201cI would eat nothing but fruit cake and daisies.\u201d<\/p>\n Martin squints at her through his Martin-goggles. \u201cYou<\/em> have a fanciful notion of goats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIf I were a goat, \u201d Martin says, and he reaches skywards. He looks up. \u201cI\u2019d cut you, God. I\u2019d slice you raw. I\u2019d peel apart the endless hungry void.\u201d \u201cGoats don\u2019t do that,\u201d observes Jane. She\u2019s his sister. Well, his adoptive sister. Well, the girl he found in the pantry. Really, there is no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-4","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Icon_Goat.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","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=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}