{"id":28838,"date":"2013-04-11T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/11\/running-iamthefirechild-18\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T19:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:24:27","slug":"running-iamthefirechild-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/11\/running-iamthefirechild-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Running || iamthefirechild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/supercilious-pariah.tumblr.com\/post\/47716782227\/running-iamthefirechild\">supercilious-pariah<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/47715398073\/running-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Funny. She arched an eyebrow right back. \u201cNo longer capable of protecting yourself? You could hire a bodyguard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, although she\u2019d been joking, what exactly was Tony Stark doing, just \u2026 running? Didn\u2019t that Tower of his have basically every amenity known to man, and some only known to, well, Tony Stark, in it?<\/p>\n<p>She looked him up and down, grinning. \u201cOr you could run away. You\u2019re all set for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/db70ada7c12a7202cabd352e9970dc13\/tumblr_inline_ml3t51PWH71qz4rgp.png\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He squinted slightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am perfectly capable of protecting myself. I just don\u2019t necessarily want to, right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/9d79786a0e3af2e4b768cb9743601703\/tumblr_inline_ml3tsfMViK1qz4rgp.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would I hire a bodyguard? That just requires that I have to run at the same pace as them. What if they go too slow? Then I\u2019m making them do a shitty job because they can\u2019t keep up with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He shrugged lightly, looking around for a moment before he looked back at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you even doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;People-watching. Making fun of you. Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, this was fun. He was supposed to be the most witty, smooth man in the world, and it was so \/easy\/ to make fun of him.<\/p>\n<p>She rolled over, tried to get up, planted one hand on the end of her long braid, and sat down hard. &#8220;Ow. Swear words.&#8221; The second attempt went better, and she stuck her hands in her pockets as she sauntered over to him.<\/p>\n<p>He was a long way up to look. At least eight inches taller than she was. Maybe more like a foot. She rocked onto her toes, slightly, smirking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>supercilious-pariah: iamthefirechild: Funny. She arched an eyebrow right back. \u201cNo longer capable of protecting yourself? You could hire a bodyguard.\u201d Come to think of it, although she\u2019d been joking, what exactly was Tony Stark doing, just \u2026 running? Didn\u2019t that Tower of his have basically every amenity known to man, and some only known to, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/04\/11\/running-iamthefirechild-18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Running || iamthefirechild<\/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":[10,3221,3220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838"}],"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=28838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}