{"id":38,"date":"2011-04-15T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T00:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2012-05-28T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T05:16:26","slug":"tragomaskhalophobia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=38","title":{"rendered":"Tragomaskhalophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <\/em>The Abyss<em>, Autumn Equinox 1999 edition, vol. 1.7<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His arms were tightly pinned to his side, but what a relief!  Others  might have felt cramped, trapped like a fly on flypaper; he felt safer  this way.  The danger was just too great, and being crushed in the back  of the subway car obviated, for now, any need to struggle with it.  For  now\u2026  Soon his stop would come, and he\u2019d have to move around.  It was  harder to push your way through a crowd with your arms at your sides,  but he\u2019d had plenty of practice because it was better, he felt, to play  it safe.  There was no point in taking the chance of releasing it.  The  degree to which those around him would suffer \u2013 did suffer, on a few  horrible occasions \u2013 made it worth his while to be very careful.  The  nausea, the retching, the screaming and moaning, the flies; he couldn\u2019t  knowingly inflict that on anyone.  That\u2019s why he moved so slowly,  walking painstakingly around with his arms clamped to his sides.  If he  raised them even slightly, it would all be over.  He had  Tragomaskhalophobia, the fear of having armpits that smell like a goat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Abyss, Autumn Equinox 1999 edition, vol. 1.7 His arms were tightly pinned to his side, but what a relief! Others might have felt cramped, trapped like a fly on flypaper; he felt safer this way. The danger was just too great, and being crushed in the back of the subway car obviated, for&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=38\" title=\"Tragomaskhalophobia\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tragomaskhalophobia<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-me","post-38","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}