\u201cI miss it,\u201d says Tom, after a while. He\u2019d been out there, in his childhood, before Jeremiah Clean had had it from him. He\u2019d flown through space; he\u2019d wandered time; he\u2019d been perfect and amazing, except for that little thing about being the death of humanity \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cI miss it so very much.\u201d<\/p>\n
And over the days and nights of autumn, their amazing space station \u2014 the construct and sky armory that they will name Vidar\u2019s Boot <\/em>\u2014 rises up to claim the stars.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI miss it,\u201d says Tom, after a while. He\u2019d been out there, in his childhood, before Jeremiah Clean had had it from him. He\u2019d flown through space; he\u2019d wandered time; he\u2019d been perfect and amazing, except for that little thing about being the death of humanity \u2014 \u201cI miss it so very much.\u201d And over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-8","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Vidar-Boot-Semifinal-e1435794342570.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","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=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}