{"id":45,"date":"2011-04-15T18:03:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T01:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2011-04-16T08:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T15:44:32","slug":"hulobate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"Hulobate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Unpublished, but intended for the Abyss.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwin moons!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, a pair of marbles!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see pearls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a game  they played frequently in the forest, wandering around till one of them  spied an engaging shape or object, whereupon they\u2019d take turns  announcing what it could be.\u00a0  Braden, the older of the two, usually  tried to think of abstract interpretations, and Breza liked seeing toys  or useful items.\u00a0  Yesterday they had amused themselves for an hour with a  tin can on a stick.\u00a0  There was no hurry to this game, it was not a  competition; they congratulated each other as often as they argued over  what the other saw.\u00a0  Neither minded at all if ten minutes passed wordlessly  in pursuit of a new interpretation.\u00a0 The twin objects disappeared from the bush in whose leafy center they  had been spotted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, come back,\u201d shouted Breza impulsively, to which  Braden responded, \u201cDo you really think it\u2019ll listen to you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he  was as surprised as she, since the subjects of their game were not  supposed to disappear.\u00a0  Rustling sounds and faint footfalls only  augmented the strangeness of the moment.\u00a0 They glanced at each other, then trotted around the side of the bush in  time to glimpse movement \u2013 adult human sized movement \u2013 in the trees  ahead.\u00a0  The pair dashed forward for several minutes, but spied no  further signs of whatever they\u2019d seen.\u00a0  Thenceforth they often felt eyes  upon them, but to their knowledge, they never again came so close to  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=49\" target=\"_self\">hulobate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unpublished, but intended for the Abyss. \u201cTwin moons!\u201d \u201cNo, a pair of marbles!\u201d \u201cI see pearls.\u201d It was a game they played frequently in the forest, wandering around till one of them spied an engaging shape or object, whereupon they\u2019d take turns announcing what it could be.\u00a0 Braden, the older of the two, usually tried&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=45\" title=\"Hulobate\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hulobate<\/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-45","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/54"}],"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=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}