{"id":5910,"date":"2015-12-23T15:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2016-09-30T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:13:58","slug":"non-lethal-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=5910","title":{"rendered":"Non-Lethal Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='et-dropcap' style=\"font-size: 48px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;W<\/span>ell-fought,\u201d admits the Vampire King, sinking back into his coffin.<\/p>\n<p>His eyes flutter. He stares up at the ceiling of the chapel.<\/p>\n<p>He sighs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI picked my enemy well,\u201d he says, sadly, to the Professor of Non-Lethal Solutions. \u201cAt least. I knew that if I targeted you, if I pushed you, if I fought you hard, then it would be you here, with me, at the end. If you won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Professor Campana confirms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will sleep now,\u201d says the Vampire King. \u201cI will sleep, and in some future aeon I will wake and I will trouble the world again. No prison will hold me. No coffin can confine me. There is nothing that a Professor of Non-Lethal Solutions can do to me that will stop my eventual rise; my eventual triumph; the endless rivers of blood that will flow over this mortal Brentwood, when you and your pitiful magnet school of yours are gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUm,\u201d says Professor Campana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see, at last,\u201d says the Vampire King, \u201cthe limits of your pathetic pacifism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUm,\u201d says Professor Campana again.<\/p>\n<p>The Vampire King waves a hand airily. \u201cGo ahead. Trouble me with your words. Then leave me to meditate in steel casing for all the endless years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s actually a specialization in Chemistry,\u201d Professor Campana explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ell-fought,\u201d admits the Vampire King, sinking back into his coffin. His eyes flutter. He stares up at the ceiling of the chapel. He sighs. \u201cI picked my enemy well,\u201d he says, sadly, to the Professor of Non-Lethal Solutions. \u201cAt least. I knew that if I targeted you, if I pushed you, if I fought you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"series":[48],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-encounters","series-strange-encounters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Strange-Encounter-Campana1000.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","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=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6934,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/6934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}