{"id":27,"date":"2009-01-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-01-26T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T05:00:00","slug":"the-firey-deluge-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"The firey deluge continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;ve lost count of the days since the fires started.&nbsp; Everything we once knew, gone in a blast of heat and ash, leaving only ruin behind.&nbsp; They say we&#8217;re lucky to be alive.&nbsp; That could have been us back there in the city.&nbsp; &#8230;&nbsp; The city..&nbsp; Nothing but a ruin now.&nbsp; Rivers of fire flow through the streets, buildings scarred by the heat, or burned away entirely.&nbsp; Whole families swept away as the deadly rivers poured forth from the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re safe enough, for now.&nbsp; At least, safe from the fires raging below.&nbsp; The black, oily air is another matter entirely.&nbsp; Many of our neighbors have developed a nasty cough, some even coughing up blood.&nbsp; They say it&#8217;s only a matter of time until we start to feel the same.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky..&nbsp; I&#8217;m not so sure.&nbsp; We&#8217;re here, watching everything we knew be destroyed.&nbsp; We watch each day as our friends and neighbors get sick.&nbsp; We watch, trapped on this mountain peak without food or fresh water.&nbsp; We watch, knowing that we may only have days to live.&nbsp; We watch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crisper.livejournal.com\/192670.html\">Annual Rabbit Hole Day<\/a> &#8230;&nbsp; Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=6914\">Warren<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lost count of the days since the fires started.&nbsp; Everything we once knew, gone in a blast of heat and ash, leaving only ruin behind.&nbsp; They say we&#8217;re lucky to be alive.&nbsp; That could have been us back there in the city.&nbsp; &#8230;&nbsp; The city..&nbsp; Nothing but a ruin now.&nbsp; Rivers of fire flow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/?p=27\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The firey deluge continues&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}