{"id":1537,"date":"2012-12-06T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2013-01-10T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T00:54:11","slug":"chapter-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/2012\/12\/06\/chapter-one-2\/","title":{"rendered":"chapter one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;My&nbsp;eyes hurt,&quot; insisted Captain Dimcho Pavlov puffing on a cigarette. &quot;I&#039;ll be dead in two years. Or worse than dead.&quot;<br \/>\n\t&quot;Some people just get better with age, boss.&quot; The Parrot kept her eye on the darkened sea ahead and a hand on the wheel. Rogue spume&nbsp;arched gracefully into the&nbsp;foredeck lights. In the rolling darkness, the <em>Nitram Yar <\/em>held a course&nbsp;The Parrot&nbsp;had calculated would pass by&nbsp;the island of Jersey and continue all the way to Nova Scotia. As&nbsp;Captain Pavlov held to the notion&nbsp;that nothing will ever go in a straight line,&nbsp;she had drawn a bowl-shaped line on the chart, which seemed to satisfy him.<br \/>\n\tThe Parrot got her name from the crew of another day, but it was more a reflection on the Captain himself than the diminuative&nbsp;Parrot (whose short cropped hair could not hide&nbsp;the woman beneath) given that&nbsp;Pavlov was&nbsp;the kind of&nbsp;seafarer existing only in books, or, more likely,&nbsp;in&nbsp;comics, his greying, long&nbsp;frizzy hair and communist-era uniform an unlikely&nbsp;reflection in the&nbsp;half price<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&nbsp;<\/span>sunglasses of life.<\/p>\n<p>Hungry and cold, Kimbell huddled in the cargo hold between two wooden crates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;My&nbsp;eyes hurt,&quot; insisted Captain Dimcho Pavlov puffing on a cigarette. &quot;I&#039;ll be dead in two years. Or worse than dead.&quot; &quot;Some people just get better with age, boss.&quot; The Parrot kept her eye on the darkened sea ahead and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/2012\/12\/06\/chapter-one-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}