{"id":3581,"date":"2018-04-30T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2018-04-29T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T00:12:26","slug":"thirty-seven-02-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3581","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-seven &#8211; 02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[This post is from Marin&#8217;s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMar.\u201d Matt\u2019s voice was gentle as his hand closed around my shoulder. When had he moved? I wasn\u2019t sure. I shook my head, trying to forestall whatever he was about to say. I didn\u2019t want to hear it\u2014I couldn\u2019t hear it, not now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Focus, Marin. Focus. Just focus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be with you,\u201d Hecate said quietly from behind us. \u201cNo matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I flinched. Matt\u2019s fingers tightened.<\/p>\n<p><em>I don\u2019t want you guys hurt. I don\u2019t want you guys in danger. I can\u2019t\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Was <em>this<\/em> what Phelan had felt like? What that why he\u2019d tried to leave months ago?<\/p>\n<p>It might have been.<\/p>\n<p>My heart sank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d I said in a whisper, jaw tightening. \u201cI\u2019m not where I should be right now. I\u2019m just\u2014I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clutching my coffee cup, I started walking without knowing where I was going. It didn\u2019t matter anyway. I wasn\u2019t going to go that far.<\/p>\n<p>There was nowhere to go, not now.<\/p>\n<p>Not today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This post is from Marin&#8217;s point of view.] \u201cMar.\u201d Matt\u2019s voice was gentle as his hand closed around my shoulder. When had he moved? I wasn\u2019t sure. I shook my head, trying to forestall whatever he was about to say. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3581\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,289,14],"tags":[150,171,170,194,152,181,149,173,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-6","category-chapter-37-book-6","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-marin-astoris","tag-matthew-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-phelan-ocredne","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-VL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}