{"id":11346,"date":"2014-04-25T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/25\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-5\/"},"modified":"2014-04-25T06:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:50:14","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/25\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-5\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnydefenselessheroism.tumblr.com\/post\/83796658728\/iamthefirechild-i-assume-you-get-to-practise\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">skinnydefenselessheroism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/83796073614\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-she\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I assume you get to practise with the rest of the team,&#8221; she points out, through fading giggles. &#8220;I\u2019m going to go out on a limb here and bet that\u2019s when it happened. You\u2019ve just got so caught up in measuring yourself against the rest of them you didn\u2019t notice. Don\u2019t you ever stop comparing yourself to everyone else?&#8221; It\u2019s a pretty hypocritical thing for her to say, actually, but he doesn\u2019t know that. On the pretext of taking the warming ice pack away, she gets up and inspects his arms at close range.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stiles is still mostly looking down at his own arm, although he does offer her the towel-pack once Summer gets close enough, presuming that\u2019s what she\u2019s come over to actually\u00a0<em>do<\/em>. She has a point\u2014he\u2019s a reasonably well-built young man, broader in the shoulders than he was a year ago and while he might not be\u00a0<em>sculpted<\/em>, he\u2019s clearly\u00a0<em>toned<\/em>. He has no real\u00a0<em>answer<\/em> to the question she\u2019s really asked, so he shrugs again, looking back up to Summer with a sort of equally lopsided expression. \u201cIf I\u2019m comparing myself to\u00a0<em>me<\/em>, the bar isn\u2019t exactly high.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; she says wryly, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that many people who would have gone this far out of their way to return a cat to its owner, much less to find that owner in the first place.&#8221; Impulsively she kisses his cheek. &#8220;In case I forget, thank you.&#8221; She shakes the ice pack out of the towel and carries them both into the kitchen area, putting the ice pack back into the freezer before hanging up the towel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: &#8220;I assume you get to practise with the rest of the team,&#8221; she points out, through fading giggles. &#8220;I\u2019m going to go out on a limb here and bet that\u2019s when it happened. You\u2019ve just got so caught up in measuring yourself against the rest of them you didn\u2019t notice. Don\u2019t you ever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/25\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-i-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,1073,1072,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}