{"id":3217,"date":"2024-07-29T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2024-07-29T10:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T14:38:39","slug":"steampunk-soldiers-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Soldiers, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steampunk Soldiers<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I.<br \/>\nThere were spider-cricket tracks<br \/>\nin the lavender powder that had drifted<br \/>\ndown to the dark, hardwood floor<br \/>\nin the bathroom, after I had sprinkled some<br \/>\nin my underwear the night before.<\/p>\n<p>I got down on my hands and knees<br \/>\nto get a closer look. Not only were the claw tracks<br \/>\nvisible, but I could see where it\u2019s absurdly-long<br \/>\nfeelers swished back and forth, scanning<br \/>\nthe area ahead.<\/p>\n<p>II.<br \/>\nIf you go outside, there\u2019s a two-hundred-year-old shed<br \/>\nbuilt into the stone wall. If you open it, you\u2019ll see dozens<br \/>\nof spider-crickets, with their humped, armored<br \/>\nbacks, and they\u2019re long hind-legs, on the ceiling<br \/>\nand on the walls, and if you stand long enough, one by one,<br \/>\nthey drop to the ground, and in a few moments<br \/>\nthey\u2019re gone, assembled somewhere I\u2019m sure,<br \/>\nlike an army of steampunk soldiers, planning<br \/>\nto see who goes in next to scout the Barn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.217.43\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steampunk Soldiers by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; I. There were spider-cricket tracks in the lavender powder that had drifted down to the dark, hardwood floor in the bathroom, after I had sprinkled some in my underwear the night before. I got down on my hands and knees to get a closer look. Not only were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}