{"id":17528,"date":"2013-12-31T06:12:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/31\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-3\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T06:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:12:02","slug":"hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/31\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hey, our common friend the coffee monster told me to come and talk with you.&#8221; Clint chuckles and sits down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nestinghawk.tumblr.com\/post\/70844655383\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-to\">nestinghawk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/70824488813\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-to\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/65366931680\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh yeah? Were there specifics? Did you leave him with plenty of caffeine?&#8221; Summer glances up from her laptop, grinning. &#8220;Or is this him doing that thing where he\u2019s afraid he\u2019ll screw it up if he tries to \u2026 make his friends be friends?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>&#8220;It\u2019s the wind,&#8221; she replies. It is, and the way the towering highrises of downtown New York channel it into cutting edges doesn\u2019t help. No coat she owns proof against that. She takes in a deep breath and holds it for a moment, then breathes it out in a puff of condensation and laughs. &#8220;Dragon\u2019s breath.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The wind is quite sharp and nearly chilling. Here, let\u2019s hope it protects you at least a little.&#8221; the hawk says and places his coat on your shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>You puffing your breath brings a small smile to his face and your words cause a quiet chuckle to emerge. \u201cCome on then my little dragon, let\u2019s get you some hot chocolate to warm you up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer growls quietly. She doesn&#8217;t need to be protected, but she doesn&#8217;t jerk the coat off her shoulders. It would destroy the fragile bond they&#8217;re crafting here. Clint will come to see her independence soon enough. She grabs his hand, instead, and pulls him at a faster speed toward the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nestinghawk: iamthefirechild: iamthefirechild: &#8220;Oh yeah? Were there specifics? Did you leave him with plenty of caffeine?&#8221; Summer glances up from her laptop, grinning. &#8220;Or is this him doing that thing where he\u2019s afraid he\u2019ll screw it up if he tries to \u2026 make his friends be friends?&#8221; &#8220;It\u2019s the wind,&#8221; she replies. It is, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/31\/hey-our-common-friend-the-coffee-monster-told-me-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hey, our common friend the coffee monster told me to come and talk with you.&#8221; Clint chuckles and sits down.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17528"}],"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=17528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}