Let\u2019s go back a little.<\/p>\n
Sid is thinking about the bad milk. It\u2019s expired. He shouldn\u2019t drink it.<\/p>\n
. . . or should <\/em>he?<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe,\u201d says Sid, \u201cI will just drink a little.\u201d<\/p>\n He pours himself a little. Just a little. Then he tastes it. He makes a face. It is quite bad.<\/p>\n \u201cI bet,\u201d he says, \u201cthat if I drink it all, the world will be better.\u201d<\/p>\n This won\u2019t make the world better.<\/p>\n \u201cOr at least,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019ll fix someone\u2019s <\/em>life.\u201d<\/p>\n It won\u2019t fix anyone\u2019s life. Unless you . . . I mean, unless you, I mean, right now, unless what you need right now, to have hope for the world, is for Sid to drink a bunch of bad milk. I don\u2019t know why you\u2019d need that. But maybe if you wanted<\/em> to need that, I mean, so you could?<\/p>\n He\u2019d drink it for you.<\/p>\n He\u2019s drinking it now.<\/p>\n He gets half of it down. Then he\u2019s choking. He\u2019s spluttering. It\u2019s come out his nose. He can\u2019t drink any more for a while.<\/p>\n Then he thinks.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe,\u201d he says, reasoning with himself, \u201cit\u2019ll have gotten better<\/em>. It\u2019ll have aged<\/em>. Like fine wine, or a cheese.\u201d<\/p>\n It hasn\u2019t aged.<\/p>\n Well, that\u2019s technically inaccurate.<\/p>\n \u201cTonight,\u201d he says, resting his head on the table, \u201cI really, really, really have to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s go back a little. Sid is thinking about the bad milk. It\u2019s expired. He shouldn\u2019t drink it. . . . or should he? \u201cMaybe,\u201d says Sid, \u201cI will just drink a little.\u201d He pours himself a little. Just a little. Then he tastes it. He makes a face. It is quite bad. \u201cI bet,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-9","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Hat_5_nobg.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","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=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6042,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/6042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}