{"id":28765,"date":"2013-04-14T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T00:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/14\/summer-weighed-the-rubber-mallet-in-one-hand-2\/"},"modified":"2013-04-14T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T00:48:13","slug":"summer-weighed-the-rubber-mallet-in-one-hand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/14\/summer-weighed-the-rubber-mallet-in-one-hand-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer weighed the rubber mallet in one hand, eyeing the box of aluminium cans. She got down on her knees, planting one empty can upright on a scrap piece of board, and hefted the mallet again.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t even that it had been a particularly bad day. She just felt &#8212; off. Angry, for no reason.<\/p>\n<p>Smashy.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the empty cans. Lifting the mallet high, she brought it down squarely on the top of the can. It kinda &#8230; bounced. The rim crushed a little, sideways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well \/that&#8217;s\/ interesting.&#8221; She smacked it again, a little off-centre. That strike produced a satisfying crunch and a flatter can. Tossing it back in the box, she set up another can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer weighed the rubber mallet in one hand, eyeing the box of aluminium cans. She got down on her knees, planting one empty can upright on a scrap piece of board, and hefted the mallet again. It wasn&#8217;t even that it had been a particularly bad day. She just felt &#8212; off. Angry, for no &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/14\/summer-weighed-the-rubber-mallet-in-one-hand-2\/\" 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":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[497,10,3414,199,306,3415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28765"}],"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=28765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}