{"id":3518,"date":"2017-12-16T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2023-02-20T06:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T11:09:55","slug":"basilisks-creed-chapter-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/basilisks-creed-chapter-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basilisk&#8217;s Creed: Chapter Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Cause for Pause<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3429 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Matthiel-300dpi-300x82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Matthiel-300dpi-300x82.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Matthiel-300dpi-550x150.jpg 550w, https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Matthiel-300dpi.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Here I am; standing in front of this human who just keeps gawking at me like an ostrich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">She doesn\u2019t even blink. Doesn\u2019t move a muscle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">She just stands there, impeccably still, staring back as if she\u2019s been frozen in time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">I examine her more closely, making sure my eyes aren\u2019t deceiving me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><em>You\u2019ve <\/em>got <em>to be fucking kidding\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Just moments ago, everything was perfectly normal. I\u2019d been minding my own business in the final hours of a typical work week; gruesome and exhausting, filled with the promise of countless tasks and unending responsibilities that would have bored me to death\u2026if I wasn\u2019t already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cause for Pause &nbsp; &nbsp; Here I am; standing in front of this human who just keeps gawking at me like an ostrich. She doesn\u2019t even blink. Doesn\u2019t move a muscle. She just stands there, impeccably still, staring back as if she\u2019s been frozen in time. I examine her more closely, making sure my eyes aren\u2019t deceiving me. You\u2019ve got to be fucking kidding\u2026 Just moments ago, everything was perfectly normal. I\u2019d been minding my own business in the final hours of a typical work week; gruesome and exhausting, filled&#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/basilisks-creed-chapter-nine\/\">\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0434\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0435<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"series":[101],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ongoing","series-the-basilisks-creed"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Wattpad-Header-1024x341.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Wattpad-Header-300x100.jpg","large":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Wattpad-Header-1024x341.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}