{"id":1768,"date":"2007-10-08T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2007-10-08T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:26:00","slug":"freak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1768","title":{"rendered":"Freak-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addendum.  I was just quietly congratulating myself on how cool I&#8217;ve become with this place.  Waking up here this morning made me feel all in-control and junk.  I came and I went &#8230; and I didn&#8217;t even flip out when I tried the wrong key, coming home from dinner.  No problems.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all gone now, thanks to a sound very remarkably like steps coming up the stairs.  I believe that I teleported to the top of said stairs, and I stood there for a good solid 100 breaths, daring the invader to make a noise.  I had to pry my fist apart with the other hand.  <\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the outside world made the noise at about 30 breaths &#8230; and again at about 75.  There&#8217;s a truck or something out there that really and truly sounds like it&#8217;s in here with me &#8230; it sounds like heavy footsteps coming up the entryway.  I have looked at the stairs and verified that it still sounds like that &#8230; even when I can see that nobody is there.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all sleep well now.  I&#8217;m off to patrol the premises with some sort of kitchen knife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addendum. I was just quietly congratulating myself on how cool I&#8217;ve become with this place. Waking up here this morning made me feel all in-control and junk. I came and I went &#8230; and I didn&#8217;t even flip out when I tried the wrong key, coming home from dinner. No problems.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all gone now, <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1768\">Freak-out<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}