Mr. Enemy pulls half a sandwich out from under his pillow. It\u2019s covered in greasy saran wrap. It\u2019s a peanut butter sandwich, so it\u2019s not clear where the grease came from. He bites deep.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you need me for?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it mean to you,\u201d Melanie asks, \u201cthat you\u2019re Jeremiah Clean\u2019s enemy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Enemy gestures with the sandwich. Now there\u2019s peanut butter on the cell wall. It\u2019s a horribly artistic Rorschach smear.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an obstacle in everyone\u2019s path,\u201d Mr. Enemy says. \u201cThere\u2019s a stumbling block. Someone or something who gets in the way. Someone who is the antithesis of what you believe in. Someone who means, just \u2019cause they exist, that you can\u2019t have what you want. That\u2019s what it means to be an enemy. That\u2019s what it means to be bad, you know, in someone else\u2019s world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr. Enemy pulls half a sandwich out from under his pillow. It\u2019s covered in greasy saran wrap. It\u2019s a peanut butter sandwich, so it\u2019s not clear where the grease came from. He bites deep. \u201cWhat do you need me for?\u201d he says. \u201cWhat does it mean to you,\u201d Melanie asks, \u201cthat you\u2019re Jeremiah Clean\u2019s enemy?\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-prologue","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Peanut-Butter.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6750,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/6750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}