{"id":1634,"date":"2012-12-12T07:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T07:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2013-01-22T04:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T04:08:16","slug":"chapter-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/2012\/12\/12\/chapter-five\/","title":{"rendered":"chapter five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The afternoon of&nbsp;Wednesday the&nbsp;12th of December 2012, Pasha stalked&nbsp;every aisle of the&nbsp;St Petersburg Public&nbsp;Library before finally coming to rest on a seat beside the so-called Gasman. Gasman seemed like one totally mad kind of gismo, consisting&nbsp;of a transparent metallic sphere,&nbsp;as if she were&nbsp;looking at a droplet of water, from the bottom of which emanated&nbsp;an old WW1&nbsp;gas mask. All this was supported by a rudimentary tripod. As she looked at&nbsp;Gasman,&nbsp;Gasman looked back, replicating her visual perpective exactly. That is,&nbsp;through her eyes, the Gasman was&nbsp;admiring himself. She read the paperised plaque stuck to an archaic&nbsp;music stand: &quot;Invented by Gomenko and Solovief, two students at the St Petersburg State Polytechnical University in 2019, Gasman was originally intended&nbsp;as&nbsp;an aid to the analysis of psychotic conditions&#8230;&quot;<br \/>\n\tPasha stopped reading. Why go on? This machine needed stealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The afternoon of&nbsp;Wednesday the&nbsp;12th of December 2012, Pasha stalked&nbsp;every aisle of the&nbsp;St Petersburg Public&nbsp;Library before finally coming to rest on a seat beside the so-called Gasman. Gasman seemed like one totally mad kind of gismo, consisting&nbsp;of a transparent metallic sphere,&nbsp;as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/2012\/12\/12\/chapter-five\/\">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-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}