{"id":197,"date":"2020-10-09T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2020-10-09T08:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:07:39","slug":"75-theyre-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/197\/75-theyre-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"#75: They&#8217;re Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John&#8217;s family toils up the road. &#8220;The way wasn&#8217;t so steep for my father,&#8221; he grumbles, again. His wife remains silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Make way!&#8221; they hear behind them. They step aside. A hundred horses, mules, and camels pass, laden with treasure. Finally, a rich man pauses his golden elephant. &#8220;May I show you something?&#8221; he asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In awe, John says &#8220;Certainly!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rich man hands him a spyglass. &#8220;Look behind us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John complies. He sees a multitude: disheveled, battered, and angry. They climb the road, but keep sliding back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Beware, my friend,&#8221; the rich man urges. &#8220;They come to rob you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John&#8217;s family toils up the road. &#8220;The way wasn&#8217;t so steep for my father,&#8221; he grumbles, again. His wife remains silent. &#8220;Make way!&#8221; they hear behind them. They step aside. A hundred horses, mules, and camels pass, laden with treasure. Finally, a rich man pauses his golden elephant. &#8220;May I show you something?&#8221; he asks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-word-stories","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}