{"id":31968,"date":"2012-11-24T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/24\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-107\/"},"modified":"2012-11-24T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T05:20:00","slug":"gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/24\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-107\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gadgeteerphilanthropist.tumblr.com\/post\/36403187257\/iamthefirechild-gadgeteerphilanthropist\">gadgeteerphilanthropist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/36399614336\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-she\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gadgeteerphilanthropist.tumblr.com\/post\/36397099204\/iamthefirechild-she-tried-to-comb-the-fingers\">gadgeteerphilanthropist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/36339255714\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She tried to comb the fingers of the broken arm through her hair and gave up after a moment. \u201cI should just cut it all off,\u201d she muttered, frustrated. \u201cVenice? Really Venice? I haven\u2019t been out of the country since \u2026 god, years ago.\u201d Looking at her hands in her lap, Summer added, \u201cI hate being this helpless to even take care of myself. I can barely even brush my own hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cReally Venice,\u201d Tony replied, as he somewhat reluctantly removed the cat from his lap and got to his feet.\u00a0 He stretched, and set about pulling off his tie, while he asked, \u201cWhere do you keep your hairbrush stashed?\u201d\u00a0 He draped his tie over her head, because apparently that was the most convenient place to put it at the moment.\u00a0 Heaven forbid he just leave it on the coffee table.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Automatically, she replied, \u201cBathroom counter, on top of the mirror,\u201d before her brain caught up. Snatching the tie off her head, she blinked up at him. \u201cWhy?\u201d Helios stretched in imitation of Tony, before putting his tail in the air and falling over with a soft thump, belly up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tony disappeared into the bathroom, calling, \u201cYou\u2019re threatening to chop your hair off,\u201d in reply.\u00a0 He emerged a moment later, passing the hairbrush from one hand to the other.\u00a0 \u201cI like your hair.\u00a0 Or have you not noticed that I play with it at the slightest provocation?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Things have been so crazy lately, I guess I forgot.&#8221; Summer looped the tie around her fingers, then tried, awkwardly, to tie herself up with it, before giving up and hanging it off the arm of the sofa. Running her hand along the back of her neck, she pulled the mass of hair over one shoulder into her lap, then held out her hand for the brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: gadgeteerphilanthropist: iamthefirechild: She tried to comb the fingers of the broken arm through her hair and gave up after a moment. \u201cI should just cut it all off,\u201d she muttered, frustrated. \u201cVenice? Really Venice? I haven\u2019t been out of the country since \u2026 god, years ago.\u201d Looking at her hands in her lap, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/24\/gadgeteerphilanthropist-iamthefirechild-107\/\" 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":[10,199,3862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31968"}],"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=31968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}